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Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... virus burns out or fades away or a vaccine is discovered, Eurozone authorities will next have to contend next with a trade war with Trump. America threatened to impose additional tariffs worth around US$3.1 billion of exports from France, Germany, Spain ...

Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... recovery gets under way, there will still be a shadow cast by the pandemic." Not only that, Australia's simmering trade war and political stoush with China - the country's biggest export market - could throw a spanner in Canberra's recovery ...

Hong Kong financial hub status at risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... losing Hong Kong as a financial hub in Asia if the laws are imposed. Currently, Hong Kong is immune for the US-China trade war but the US said this immunity will only continue is China guarantees autonomy to the city. "Beijing's disastrous decision ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
With investors caught in a nasty tug of war between the dire economic reality and the hope of a virus cure, industry leaders have warned of the potential for further downside. And with macro threats looming, markets, already fragile from a period of ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... from devastation wrought by the bushfires, the lockdown forced on society by the coronavirus and, just in, a brewing trade war with China - its biggest trading partner. China has recently banned meat imports from Australia, citing violations of quarantine ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... global credit crisis and recession after the coronavirus outbreak struck an economy already weakened by two years of trade war and an aggressive Fed rate hike cycle," Spivak said. "If the slowdown punctures any bubbles built up through the ultra-accommodative ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... remained reasonably priced, investors tending in recent years to worry about industrial slowdown, financial reform and the trade war, and even giants like Tencent do not fully reflect their potential in their stock prices." Yeung warned the worse could ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's trade war -- and other challenges in-between -- proved no match for central bank money Throw enough money at the problem and the problem ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street sneezes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... index's present reading is the highest since December 2018. At the time, that fear was instilled by the ongoing US-China trade war (back then) and when the Fed "murdered" the bull market by delivering another 25 bps hike in the fed funds rate to ...

Remain liquid, defensive and patient: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... to Mihkel Kase, portfolio manager - fixed income at Schroders. Kase said the concerns investors faced in 2019 - think trade war and Brexit - have come and gone leaving markets relatively unscathed. "The market focus has moved on and we have sailed through ...