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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 ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... in the red; the S&P 500 index closed 2.6% lower; the Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 tumbled by 3.0% and 3.1%, respectively. Trump let loose on Twitter, virtually naming Powell an enemy of the state: "As usual, the Fed did NOTHING! It is incredible that ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... Jerome's biggest test since he assumed the Fed chairmanship since February 2018 - nominated by no less than US President Donald Trump himself. Two things are certain. One, Jerome would be careful not to disappoint financial markets that are expecting ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... Shakespeare might just as well have written this prose about Donald J. - that's President of the United States Donald J. Trump to us all. The global economy was going swimmingly fine (even bolstered) straight after his victory and his tax cuts and ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... possibility that the momentum toward achieving the price stability target will be lost". That was printed on July 30, before Trump ramped up his tariff war with China (on August 1) and before all the other uncertainties mentioned above (and then some) ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
US president Donald Trump is envious of Chinese president Xi Jinping. Perhaps it's P-envy (I don't have to spell the word, my head will be summarily chopped off), but US President Trump admitted as much about a year and half ago and before he ...

Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... July (-2 bps) - when the Fed disappointed with its non-commitment to further rate cuts - and deeper (-14 bps) - the day Trump tweeted the application of a 10% tariff on US$300 billion worth of US imports from China starting 1 September. The yield differential ...