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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... has broken many promises to forgo nuclear arms". As for Trump, he just recently withdrew the Iran nuclear deal made with Obama and more telling is his change of mind to not endorse the Communique agreed upon over the weekend's G7 Summit in Quebec ...

Macron won't stop populist tide: William Blair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... first started integrating it into our investment decisions in February of 2010, when we saw the Tea Party emerge during the Obama administration. And despite what happened in France recently, it isn't going away: geopolitical and macro risks arising ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... president out of the last four to reach the 100th day mark with majority disapproval. In comparison, former President Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton all passed the 50% approval mark, with 63%, 62% and 55% respectively. I can understand ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
First the good news. Crude oil prices have closed the March quarter of 2017 above the psychological US$50.00 per barrel mark - the level they have risen to since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that they (and non-OPEC ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! US consumers must be partying like it's the year 2000 for they have not been this optimistic since December of that year. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index surged to a reading of 125.6 in March from 116.1 in the previous ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
It could have been triggered by anything imaginable under the sun, but the financial markets' correction - due to Trump's repeal/replace Obamacare failure - should be seen as that, one that "corrects" overvalued levels that have run ahead of fundamentals. ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
"I think this is something - it certainly was an interesting period of time. We all learned a lot. We learned a lot about loyalty. We learned a lot about the vote-getting process. We learned a lot about some very arcane rules in, obviously, both the ...

Still unsure about POTUS 45

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... twitterland as President Trump or @POTUS. Not only that, his fingers are now on the "nuclear codes" too. Recall now ex-President Obama's warning two days before the 8 November presidential 2016 elections. Campaigning for Hillary in Florida, Obama quipped ...

Will the real Trump please stand up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
Are you ready to say 'President Trump' out loud? Like him or loathe him, investors are eager to meet the president behind the publicity hound. Their savings depend on it. On the eve of his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, many ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... could be more prolonged. Email-gate would continue to haunt a Hillary presidency or as 'zerohedge.com' puts it, "It'll be Obama cronyism on steroids". I cannot explain what happens if Donald becomes president, I simply don't know... no one knows for ...