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Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
US president Donald Trump might be thinking that it's a small price to pay - sending the US equity market down - in return for his broader objective of getting China to wave the white flag in this seemingly never-ending trade battle. US benchmark ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... special drawing rights after the US dollar and the euro. It would have been celebrations all around but US President Donald Trump and the recent protests and riots in Hong Kong are raining on the Politburo's parade - both threatening to further weaken ...

Chief economist update: This is a job for the RBA (and the Treasury)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
Sub-one percent official cash rate here we come! The Australian dollar's near half a cent drop to US$67.84 on the day immediately following the US Federal Reserve's announced a 25 bp cut in the fed funds rate underscores financial markets' ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... are going to be highly data-dependent... We are not on a pre-set course." And this, ladies and gents, are all reliant on Trump and his war on trade. With one stroke of his pen or a flip of his toupee, he could up the ante on tariffs, ensuring he gets ...

Chief economist update: Plenty of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... in the Middle East. While Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed it was them, the US points its finger on Iran with president Trump tweeting the day after that the US is "locked and loaded depending on verification..." The slowing global economy certainly ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... not only "whatever it takes" but "however long it takes". If you want to know how long, it's as long as US President Trump admits that it's him (and his war on trade) not his neighbours that's generating this downdraft and counter-cyclical ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... on the Fed. The last, most significant one was right after US Federal chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole: Trump let loose on Twitter, virtually naming Powell an enemy of the state, saying: "As usual, the Fed did NOTHING! It is incredible ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... in his Barrack-room ballads (1892): "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Especially not when Trump and Xi are holding a contest on who can pee higher and farther.

Values trump value for retail investors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
Values are driving the decision-making of Australian retail investors, according to KPMG. Latest findings from the global consultancy's research arm KPMG Acuity show Australian retail investors are more concerned about values than perhaps was previously ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... recession. To be fair, the Budget Papers were compiled before it was made public on April 2 this year - a month (May 5) before Trump announced the lifting of tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese products from 10% to 25% starting the 10th of May ...