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Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... news.com.au says it all: "Australia must "face up to the problems" it has caused to its relationship with Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian says. The comments come as Scott Morrison issued the powerful message that Australia would not be ...

Chief economist update: US-China tensions escalate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... withdraw its erroneous decision. Otherwise China will make legitimate and necessary reactions," declared China's Foreign Ministry. So far there had been limited reaction to this recent escalation in Sino-Yankee tensions. It could be because the rest ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... imports from Australia, citing violations of quarantine and custom standards. The ban on beef came soon after China's Ministry of Commerce gave Australian barley suppliers 10 days to "please explain" anti-dumping allegations, threatening to slap ...

Women in Super: A year of accomplishments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... McNulty. The luncheon's guest speaker was Rabia Siddique, a human rights lawyer and author who in 2007 sued the UK Ministry of Defence for sex discrimination and failing to acknowledge her role in a hostage rescue operation in Iraq. She won the landmark ...

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... economic output as long as their debt-to-GDP ratio is significantly below 60% - something that Germany's Finance Ministry expects to happen this year," Reuters wrote. "That would mean Germany could take on new debt worth up to 35 billion euros a ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, according to a statement from China's Ministry of Commerce. A cautious statement from the USTR's office confirmed that ministerial-level discussions will take ...

Sovereign wealth fund revokes exclusions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... Ethics has since found the grounds for exclusion are no longer present. In line with the fund's management mandate, the Ministry of Finance will determine if and when the holdings may be re-introduced to the fund's benchmark index. "Re-introduction into ...

Chief economist update: US recession in the offing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... Bloomberg, Beijing has readied plans to restrict rare earth exports to America with Reuters reporting: "China's Commerce Ministry... will draft a list of foreign companies, organisations and individuals that it deems "unreliable" for harming Chinese ...

Super gets an insider in ministry reshuffle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... AustralianSuper will take responsibility for the superannuation sector, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a reshuffled ministry. Jane Hume, a former senior policy adviser at Australia's largest super fund, will assume responsibility for ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... the paperwork to slap a 25% tariff on all remaining imports from China worth around US$325 billion. As expected, the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced (before the opening bell on Wall Street on Monday, the May 13) that ...