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Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
Move over China and North Korea, you too Iran and Israel, a new old crisis has come back to town...and it could be bigger. While the financial market world still haven't seen the end game of US President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... with China are also underway. There's the uncertainty over the US-North Korea summit, the rise in oil prices (because Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal), the fall in oil prices (because Saudi Arabia and Russia plan to increase output), and ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what you will of it, but I think Trump has more to lose - like ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... disagreements are better resolved behind closed doors. Not for the limelight/spotlight-hogging president of the US. Donald Trump didn't take to Twitter this time, he penned an open letter to tell all and sundry that what was to become a historic ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... Donald Trump's would have made good on another one of his promises. In an interview with CNBC in January this year, Trump remarked that: "The dollar is going to get stronger and stronger, and ultimately I want to see a strong dollar." Never mind ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... week (down from this year's high to date of 37.32) - there remains that lingering uncertainty over what POTUS Donald Trump or North Korea's Kim Jung-on or China's President Xi Jinpeng really thinks. Include the heads of states of Iran, Mexico ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... threats with other countries, most specifically with China. But the tide has (or appears to have) turned. It turned after Trump announced on Twitter that, "ZTE, the large Chinese phone company, buys a big percentage of individual parts from US companies. ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... million barrels in the latest week, the upward momentum in crude oil prices remains. Recent reports that US President Donald Trump would reimpose sanctions against Iran after 180 days (unless a "deal" is agreed upon) would only put a rocket under the ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... complicated. Having said that, the risks could be on the upside - such as the one Australia found itself in this year - but with Trump and his trade agitations, coupled with indications of slowing global growth momentum, ScoMo should be prepared to be ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... the March quarter, it is the top contributor to first quarter growth - adding 0.76 pps to overall GDP. This suggests that Trump's tax cuts are bearing fruit as well as explains the inventory re-stocking in the first three months of this year -- all in ...