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Chief economist update: Fed plans for Trump contingency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... makes sense given the recent positive US-China trade rhetoric. Then again, it could be that the Fed has gotten to understand Trump well enough and is thus, insuring against another Trump tweet that could once again, escalate trade tensions. An escalation ...

Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... Fed's pause, forward-guided in the first quarter of this year, would have just been what the doctor ordered. But Tariff Trump got in the way, reigniting the war on trade. Conspiracy theorists would imagine this was a deliberate ploy to prove Trump's ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Just a weetle more, a weetle more... a little more push higher and sooner than soon, the All Ordinaries index would satisfy the technical definition of a bull market - a 20% rally from its nearest low - and onwards towards topping its record high of ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... Trump's tweet "indefinitely" suspending his tariff threat against America's southern neighbour. But POTUS being Trump, he's exploited this "win" to issue fresh tariff threats versus Beijing (and indirectly to all other countries that trades ...

Chief economist update: US recession in the offing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... problem is remedied......at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow [ sic ]." Donald Trump tweeted this renewed call to war on Mexico on Thursday (May 30) that practically made a mockery of the US-Mexico-Canada ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... yield on 10-year US Treasuries reacted upon - down to 2.26%, the lowest yield since September 2017. You can blame Tariff Trump and his trade war with the rest of the world. But the immediate implication of higher retaliatory tariffs would be to lift ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
As if the world hasn't had enough of the overhanging pall engendered by lingering trade tensions, US President Trump is about to raise the stakes and expand the scope to currency manipulators. This I learned from The New York Times (NYT) on May ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
If very, very recent history is any guide, US President Donald Trump would soon be tempering his trade war tweets versus China. Trump did so early this year - prompting financial markets and economic and business agents to expect that a trade deal is ...

Chief economist update: Like Britney Spears, Financial Standard's done it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... thinking that there'll be two this year... but that's premised on no further escalation of the trade war between Trump and the world. That being constant, Australia's economic dynamics are bound to improve and/or stop deteriorating. Let us ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... treated as collateral damage. The global stock market rout that developed as a result of the renewed "little squabble" (as Trump recently put it) between the US and China is evidence enough that no country is safe from the higher tariff tit-for-tat between ...