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Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
2018 started as a good year (not the tyres) but with so many bumps in the road is, to keep up with the metaphor, flattening the tyres of global growth. There's the Fed's determination to return monetary policy back to normality - that's ...

Chief economist update: Buy the dip or sell the rallies?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... drop on Wall Street on anything else but is simply not rational. The same way the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has done with his tweet: "The prospect of presidential harassment by the Dems is causing the stock market big headaches!" ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... in oil production after the OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting in Algiers on 23 September. Not after US president Donald Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatened that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. But as ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... highest since December 2014. The black gold's price received another boost in the middle of this year after US President Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatening that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. ...

October volatility sours investor outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... recent volatility has played a hand in driving this pessimism, investors are more concerned about major global issues." The Trump administration (46%) was cited as the major issue investors were concerned about. Tensions between the world's major ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... take effect in January next year) should help revitalise domestic demand but the China-US trade dispute solely depends on Trump.

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... major legacy to the world - with America super charging growth all around the globe. But alas! Reminiscent of the song, Trump spoils it all by saying something stupid like "trade war" and "closed borders". Those extra workers America needs but couldn't ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... soybean exports to China. The inflation measures embedded in the US National Accounts would surely give President Donald Trump more ammunition on his verbal attack on the US Federal Reserve. This is because despite persistently strong and unquestionably ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... territory - up 3% this year to date but sharply down from the peak gain of 17.5% recorded on August 29. US President Donald Trump continues to blame the Fed: "Every time we do something great, he [Powell] raises interest rates... I'm just saying ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... to address China's underlying problem which is the slowing economy - are not helped by its on-going trade stoush with Trump. Yet hope has sprung! It appears that the Chinese government has now borrowed a leaf from its adversary in the form of tax ...