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Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... hearing this. S&P 500 (+2.3%); DJIA (+2.5%); Nasdaq (3.0%); Russell 2000 (+2.5%). Merry Christmas! It would even be merrier if Trump and Xi's meeting in Argentina this weekend leads to ceasefire in the trade war. Then again, of course, the unpredictable ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
Are we seeing US President Donald Trump's "The Art of the Deal" in real-time, live and in action? Ever since Trump declared a trade war with China in late March this year, there have been actual implementations, threats, some concessions and now ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The ups and downs in US equities over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices ...

Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
The tug-o-war between the bulls and the bears continues on Wall Street as 2018 draws to a close. Whether this state of affairs - or better yet, resolved one way of another (up or down) - depends primarily on the end game of the on-going trade stoush ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
2018 started as a good year (not the tyres) but with so many bumps in the road is, to keep up with the metaphor, flattening the tyres of global growth. There's the Fed's determination to return monetary policy back to normality - that's ...

Chief economist update: Buy the dip or sell the rallies?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... drop on Wall Street on anything else but is simply not rational. The same way the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has done with his tweet: "The prospect of presidential harassment by the Dems is causing the stock market big headaches!" ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... in oil production after the OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting in Algiers on 23 September. Not after US president Donald Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatened that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. But as ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... highest since December 2014. The black gold's price received another boost in the middle of this year after US President Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatening that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. ...

October volatility sours investor outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... recent volatility has played a hand in driving this pessimism, investors are more concerned about major global issues." The Trump administration (46%) was cited as the major issue investors were concerned about. Tensions between the world's major ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... take effect in January next year) should help revitalise domestic demand but the China-US trade dispute solely depends on Trump.