Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 171 - 180 of 190 results for "Trade war"

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... Retaliation from other countries would prompt Trump to counter by expanding tariffs on other goods and services and...trade war here we come. This would raise inflation and slow growth at the same time. In other words stagflation. Ben Ong is the Director ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... aluminium tariffs] impacts China's interests, China will certainly take necessary measures to protect its own rights." Trade war, here we come! And war of whatever nature - bow and arrows, nuclear, currency and trade. But - as the song goes - war is ...

Markets are stronger than Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... hasn't changed that much." The one concern Hobson did highlight from an investment perspective was the prospect of a trade war with China, in light of the President's recent threats in regards to ceasing business with any country with an economic stake ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... considers necessary to prevent or remedy the market disruption." China (and others) has every right to retaliate too. Trade war here we come. And it won't do any nation any good, not least the US of A. The history of the Great Depression had already ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... assumptions for global growth, the progress (or otherwise) of Australia's major trading partners, geopolitical uncertainties (trade war mongering by Trump), commodity prices, exchange rates...and we have a minefield of one, or several, or all going wrong. ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... nuclear kind - have recently been withdrawing from the headlines, US president Donald Trump could be starting another, a trade war. Sure, Trump's protectionist' policy remains at the back of everyone's minds but that has been allayed by his statement ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... peace dividend the world enjoyed since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 could go in reverse. There's also the trade war. Trump's actions against Syria have proven that the man walks the talk. Despite their cordial meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Chinese ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... upward pressure on the US dollar. A strong US dollar would play into Trump's protectionist policies - threatening a trade war - and erode America's export competiveness as well as put downward pressure on inflation. Already, the US trade deficit widened ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, proved to be disastrous for both the US and world economies. It resulted in a general global trade war [with the US, Europe and Asia pursuing "beggar-thy-neighbour policies] and a rapid decline in international trade -- to ...

A-dollar rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... strong protectionist action against China, the Aussie will remain at risk of becoming collateral damage of a US-China trade war over the course of 2017. It is difficult to see the Aussie spending much time above US75, especially with US dollar downside ...