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Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... but at the end of the day, it is what it is - retaliation for Trump's latest announcement of the imposition of a 10% tariff on the remaining US$300 billion worth of Chinese imports not yet covered by the trade war. No more Mister Nice Guy! It appears ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... August 1 made it so. According to @realDonaldTrump: "The U.S. will start, on September 1st, putting a small additional Tariff of 10% on the remaining 300 Billion Dollars of goods and products coming from China into our Country" [ sic ]. Yes folks, Trump's ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
"China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being the dummies who sit back and politely watch as other countries continue to play their games ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
The way it's going, the rally in iron ore prices will keep on going and going. Iron ore prices ended the first half of 2019 at US$109.18/metric tonne, representing a 57.8% rally from the US$69.20 it fetched six months earlier. The world's largest ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... Chinese goods increased from 25% from 10% on 12:01 on May 10 and Trump is reportedly readying the paperwork to slap a 25% tariff on all remaining imports from China worth around US$325 billion - sent the Shanghai composite index dropping by 13.4% from ...

Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... the Fed's pause, forward-guided in the first quarter of this year, would have just been what the doctor ordered. But Tariff Trump got in the way, reigniting the war on trade. Conspiracy theorists would imagine this was a deliberate ploy to prove ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... at par with UK growth, there's still the lingering Brexit uncertainty there. Also, Australia is not on Trump's tariff sights and the cheapening of the Australian dollar is partially negating the downdraft from slower growth and slower trade. ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
Mexico (and the world) is breathing a sigh of relief after Trump's tweet "indefinitely" suspending his tariff threat against America's southern neighbour. But POTUS being Trump, he's exploited this "win" to issue fresh tariff threats versus ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
Crude oil prices have dropped, turning this year's bull market into a bear market. Oil prices rallied nearly 50% from January to April this year on the back of the Fed's pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... happened since the recession of the early 1980s," the ABC said. As Chalmers is expected to do. But beyond politicking, tariff wars, the World Bank's recent downgrade to its global GDP growth forecasts - 2.6% in 2019 (down 0.3 pps from its January ...