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O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
With friends like these, who needs 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 ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... that he walks the talk, putting Chinese president Xi on notice that the US may yet make good on its threat to slap a 45% tariff on Chinese imports. America's missile assault on Syria, in retaliation for the chemical attack on Syrian civilians, has created ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... a mere 10 to 15% of the allowable quota of visas for the five-month period ending February 28, 1931." The "Smoot-Harley Tariff Act" of 1930 took care of the international trade side. This one from tomjacobsen.tripod.com: "...the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of ...

Markets fear Trump effect on global trade

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... now the JW Nevile Fellow of Economics at UNSW Business School, said that Trump's election promise - which include a 45% tariff on Chinese goods and 35% on Mexican goods - will, as Oliver suggested, hurt global trade. "He would be the most isolationist ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... levels against the Yen at ¥ 85, and 5% lower year-on-year against the Korean Won at ? 854. Further supporting exports were tariff cuts on Australian product into the two largest grainfed beef markets. In response to the Japan Australia Economic Partnership ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement finalised in Atlanta this week will provide a platform for multilateral trade with major economies in the Pacific Rim, creating new opportunities for Australian financial services companies. The TTP Agreement ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... details are still sketchy but according to "Business Spectator', "FTA to see 85% of all Australian exports enter China tariff-free, worth $18bn over a decade". "Finance, tourism and health" and "beef" and "dairy" would be the biggest winners, adds the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to fall after weak earnings from US retail giant WalMart contributed to a sharp drop on Wall Street. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was down 29 points at 5,496. In local economic ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... (ergo, cheaper vehicle) Asian imports. According to The Age, "The car industry has been given $19 billion in handouts and tariff protection over the past decade". I wish I may, I wish I might...have a business like that! To be sure the Abbott government ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... points. In Paris, the CAC 40 increased 0.52 per cent to 3,843.56 points, as investors also welcomed an electricity price tariff deal for energy giant EDF and takeover news in the luxury sector. The euro slid to $1.2774 from $1.2868 late in New York on ...