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Chief economist update: Crude oil slips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... oil producers could lift production by one million bpd to offset supply shortages. On top of these, news that US President Trump administration is thinking of tapping into its Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the recent announcement that America would ...

Chief economist update: Friday when the trade war began

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
Shots fired! Shots fired! The threat of a trade war became real on 6 July 2018, when at exactly 12:01 am (NY time), the US imposed a 25% tariff on US$34 billion of Chinese imports to which China immediately responded with a percent-for-percent and dollar-for-dollar ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... (or is it because of the markets' relatively sanguine reaction that media is calling it as such?). With US president Trump front and centre of the issue, it's anybody's guess. But the fact is it's already worrying the world's biggest ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... Summit on June 12, though. Trump's got his eyes on the Nobel Peace Prize. The summit concluded well with US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim reaching an agreement... the specifics can wait. The week of June 11-15 ended with another bombshell ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
The sharp turnaround in the All Ordinaries index from the 2018 low of 5859.15 points plumbed on April 3 to 6234.95 points - 6.5 points short of this year's high of 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... War) advice: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." This seemed to have worked with US President Trump tweeting that "We'll make great progress together!" and is "very thankful" of the Chinese president's statement. So far ...

Un-Keynesian

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... been priced in to the market." So there's still another two-thirds waiting to be embedded in market pricing when president Trump signs the tax cuts into law in Uncle Sam county (reportedly before Christmas). But while our American brothers may have themselves ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
... this path come February next year when Yellen's stint end. Here, there's good news. At his confirmation hearing, president Trump's nominee, Jerome Powell, basically indicated that he would continue policy along the lines of his predecessor if confirmed. ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Timely or well-timed but the release of China's trade balance just as US President Trump lands in the Middle Kingdom should help partly assuage Donald's displeasure with the US-China trade imbalance. China's trade surplus contracted sharply to US$38.2 ...

Latin America: the best-kept investment secret

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... the attractive characteristics of the region, Botero ultimately felt he had to address the elephant in the room: President Trump. "The question pops up a lot," he said. "The truth is we are not really concerned with Trump. After markets calmed down in ...