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Treasurer opens the way for increased infrastructure spending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... treasure's pre-budget speech also spoke to the merits of having an internationally competitive corporate tax rate, noting the Trump Administration's plan to bring the corporate tax rate down to 15%, and the UK's beeline for 17%. "More favourable tax ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... because of the current reversal of government policies - greater fiscal spending from fiscal rectitude - started by Donald Trump that's gaining copycats around the world? Yes, promised or actual increases in fiscal expenditure boost economic growth. ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Just when the drumbeats of war - the nuclear kind - have recently been withdrawing from the headlines, US president Donald Trump could be starting another, a trade war. Sure, Trump's protectionist' policy remains at the back of everyone's minds but that ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... Brussels to re-negotiate France's status in the EU and to hold a referendum on reintroducing the Franc. (Bloomberg). She's Trump and Brexit put together. Certainly, the best outcome for financial markets is for a Macron win on the 7 May as this would ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... strong rebound from the 1.3% fall recorded in the previous month and significantly above market expectations for a 3.2% gain. Trump's recent announcement that he won't declare China a currency manipulator should provide further impetus for export growth ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... confrontation. On his visit to Seoul, US vice-president Mike Pence warned that, "The era of strategic patience is over. President Trump has made it clear that the patience of the United States and our allies in this region has run out and we want to ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Trump's actions against Syria show that he walks the talk, putting Chinese president Xi on notice that the US may yet make good on its threat to slap a 45% tariff on Chinese imports. America's missile assault on Syria, in retaliation for the chemical ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... bias despite geo-political tremors - chemical attack in Syria and nuclear missile testing in North Korea - and doubts over Trump-flation. This came as no surprise for Wall Streeters saw the latest updates on the US economy... and they were good. While ...

Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... investors, she warned. Allen, who is "quite impassioned" about the impact FIRB is having, likened its significance to Brexit and Trump. Not only are investors incurring significant fees, there is now a huge time difference in approving deals stretching ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... WTI oil's lower by 5.9% -- with both dropping below the US$50.00 psychological level roundabout the time of US president Trump's failure to get Obamacare repealed/replaced. In its "World Economic Outlook Update" report released in January this year ...