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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 ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... week of June 11-15 ended with another bombshell with Trump giving the go-ahead to slap tariffs on US$50 billion worth of Chinese imports and warning of more if China retaliates. Well, China did. It announced a retaliatory 25% tariff on US$50 billion ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into its benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index, MSCI All Country World Index and MSCI China Index - a culmination ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... Italy's political crisis was reaching boiling point, the US announced that it would slap tariffs on US$50 billion of Chinese imports soon after June 15. That's still two weeks away and the unpredictable Trump could always announce something unpredictable. ...