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NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... henceforth shall be called the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new agreement is expected to be signed by US president Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto in 60 days before being sent to ...

OPEC is not to blame

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
Saudi Arabia and Russia weren't pleased with US President Trump when they announced no immediate increase in oil production following the OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting in Algiers on September 23. The decision sent oil prices soaring - Brent ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... overheating. At the same time, it could assert its independence from the Trump administration where not so long ago, US President Trump revealed his displeasure with Fed's rate hikes: "Because we go up and every time you go up they want to raise ...

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 ...