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Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... It finished the year 7.0% on the UP. Another lesson 2016 taught us is that consensus polls are not always right. Think Brexit, think Trump, think about the Fed's expected four interest rate hikes that was coming over the course of 2016, think also about ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... the financial markets there is a serious challenge which reminds me of the crisis we had in 2008." And this was before Brexit and all the nasty things it could wreak on the UK economy (and its flow on effect into the rest of Europe). And this was before ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... expectations for a 16.5 reading and is the highest since June this year (20.2). The index has steadily improved since the Brexit-induced drop to 14.7 in July.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... in the United Kingdom continue to accelerate not surprisingly due to the British pound's sharp depreciation since June's Brexit vote. Headline consumer prices rose by 1.2% in the year to November - the highest since October 2014 - from 0.9% in the previous ...

Coin flipping better than macro forecasts

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... isn't too far from flipping a coin, according to Prime Value Asset Management portfolio manager ST Wong. Pointing to the Brexit surprise and Donald Trump's election, Wong said: "You may have more luck predicting the weather." Relying on these forecasts ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... equity markets when they open later today. But whether this is a knee-jerk reaction that would later on correct (as in Brexit) remains to be seen. The "no camp" also demands a referendum on Italy exiting from the euro.

Markets fear Trump effect on global trade

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... 10% fall in share prices globally but they expect a bounce-back in the same way that markets recovered after the shock Brexit vote in the UK. In a report just days before the election, AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver said that a Trump victory ...

How advisers are managing US election concerns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... clients in the next 24 hours regarding the impact of the US election results. "This was something we did before and after the Brexit vote in the UK because of the market volatility then," he said. The first thing he would tell clients is to explain that ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
The Trump presidency will have a bigger effect on global markets than Brexit, according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management chief market strategist for UK and Europe Stephanie Flanders. Speaking at the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... told us so. It's Clinton for the win. Never mind that they got it spectacularly wrong in the May 2015 UK elections and Brexit. And again, they did...spectacularly! Prevail, Trump did. It was Murphy's Law for Hillary. Something that could go wrong, went ...