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JPMorgan fund excludes tobacco, cuts fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... "This is a major transition. A consequence is growth will slow [and] it has clear economic and market implications as the Chinese economy rebalances," he said. While the fund has been more positive on Chinese growth over the past year and into early ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... (-34.8%), the Argentine peso (-36.7%), the South African rand (-15.9%) and the Indian rupee (-9.0%), not to mention the Chinese yuan's 5.0% depreciation - this year to date is both a testament to funds flowing out of emerging markets and a forward ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... America's trading partners, the more the number of US trade sectors and industries he would need to compensate. The Chinese Government is being forced to engage in policy stimulation - fiscal and monetary - to counteract the negative impact of Trump's ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... with a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imported into America, followed by a 25% tariff on US$34 billion worth of Chinese shipments to the US (and another US$200 billion of imports from China to be taxed soon). Not surprisingly, China retaliated ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... against the euro; down 6.4% versus the yen; 3.5% down on the British pound; and, 3.4% lower even against the depreciated Chinese yuan. The corresponding AUD stats from its 2018 high: It's down against the greenback (-9%); euro (-4%); yen (-7.3%) ...

Chief economist update: Friday when the trade war began

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... trade war became real on 6 July 2018, when at exactly 12:01 am (NY time), the US imposed a 25% tariff on US$34 billion of Chinese imports to which China immediately responded with a percent-for-percent and dollar-for-dollar border tax of its own on "Made ...

Advisory and wealth firm appoints chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... and HSBC. He's also worked in financial markets in New York for five years and is a regular financial commentator on Chinese television. Sydney-based Sacre said he looks forward to continuing to build Bentleys' capabilities to achieve sustained ...

Chief economist update: Draining the swamp

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... inflow into America. The flipside, of course, is depreciation in the currencies of America's trading partners. The Chinese yuan has dropped by 5.9% from its 2018 high. Similarly, relative to their 2018 highs: the euro's down by 7.4%; the pound's ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... Such is the ugliness of the Sino-US trade "spat" du jour. While not many - just those who have overweight allocations in Chinese equities - batted an eyelid at the Shanghai index's dive, most are now standing up and paying attention at the yuan's ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... Fund (6.6%); Asian Development Bank (6.6%); Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (6.7%) - or even the Chinese government's 6.5% target, Trump's tariffs look set to knock these predictions down to the canvass. To be sure, China's ...