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Latin America on institutional investment radar

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... is not even factoring the alliance's internal demands, he added. On Donald Trump, the investment manager noted the US President's recent confirmation that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will stand and Mexico's economy has since bounced. ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Kim Jong-un! Just when the drumbeats of war - the 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 ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Threats and counter threats are coming in fast between the United States and North Korea suggesting that neither side is backing down from a full-scale armed (nuclear or conventional) confrontation. On his visit to Seoul, US vice-president Mike Pence ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... while WTI oil's lower by 5.9% -- with both dropping below the US$50.00 psychological level roundabout the time of US president Trump's failure to get Obamacare repealed/replaced. In its "World Economic Outlook Update" report released in January this ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... February - and less anticipating falls in income - 7.0 % from 8.1%. Underwriting this booming confidence is, of course, US President Trump's promised reflationary policies - mainly tax cuts and fiscal spending on infrastructure (and the Wall?) -- and ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... that leads to an even better healthcare plan." - Remarks by President Trump on the Health Care Bill. Yes Virginia, US President Donald Trump learned a lot last week. The unfolding events did, however, strengthen the credibility of the democratic process ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... the current expectations du jour - inevitable Fed rate hike on the 15th of March (and how many more thereafter) and US president Trump's reflationary policies (would they be passed in full, scaled down, or abandoned) are recent developments in China ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... points; the Nasdaq at 5,904.03 points and the Russell 2000 at 1,413.64 points - on 1 March 2017. This was the day US president Trump addressed the joint session of Congress that was speculated to trigger sell orders if he doesn't spell out the details ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... that will affect economies and financial markets everywhere. Wednesday (or Tuesday night US time), is the day when US President Donald Trump speaks before the joint-session of Congress, where he, hopefully, will deliver the details of his reflationary ...

In search of that elusive Australian animal spirit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... Estimate 1 for 2017-18 is $80,625m. This is 3.9% lower than Estimate 1 for 2016-17." The election of Donald Trump as US president has unarguably changed sentiment in terms of bringing out the "animal spirits" in Uncle Sam country but it seems that nothing ...