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Chief economist update: Synchronised global slowing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... Rising, slower rate Output Prices 54.0 53.8 - Rising, slower rate Future Output 64.8 65.0 + Positive, greater extent But if Trump's protectionist policies escalate into an all-out trade war the slowdown in global manufacturing would continue threatening ...

Facebook scandal raises ESG concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... exposed raw data on 50 million users to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. This firm worked, by proxy, on Donald Trump's presidential campaign and obtained user information with the help of University of Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... the lucky group of countries (that include the EU, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea) US President Donald Trump, in all his benevolence, graciously granted exemptions (albeit, temporarily) from his protectionist crusade? Yet, apart from ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
With China in the centre of US president Donald Trump's protectionist crosshairs, China needs the result of latest surveys on its economy like a hole in the head...or so it seems. In early March, China's purchasing managers' indices surveyed by both ...

Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... "jobs are hard to get" fell from 15.1% to 14.9% in March. And for those who find jobs, there's less tax to pay thanks to Trump's tax cuts. However, consumers' short-term income expectations remained unchanged net-net with those expecting an improvement ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
Who was the first to blink? Was it Trump? Or was it Xi? "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" Given the financial markets' reaction, they don't care so long as the "lose-lose" situation of a trade war is averted. Still, this will continue to task ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... typed in this space many, many times before, "war is good for absolutely nothing." This made sense because a day before Trump's 25/10 steel/aluminium tariff took effect on the 23 March, POTUS announced that the White House would be imposing a 25% tariff ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... laid out plans of mice and men often go awry." While Fed chief Powell noted that the potential for a trade war - sparked by Trump's tariff on steel and aluminium - has not been factored into the Fed's economic outlook, he did reveal that, "Our FOMC participants ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... be four or more given the strengthening momentum in the US economy? Or less, given the general uncertainty emanating from Trump's White House? We'll soon find out. For it's also at this month's meeting that the Fed releases its FOMC projections for GDP ...

Chief economist update: She'll be right, mate!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... sharp fall in "economic conditions next 5 years", which possibly reflects concern over an ensuing global trade war following Trump's tariff increase announcement on steel and aluminium. Still, five years is a long, long time. Domestic and international ...