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Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... This is hardly surprising given that the two major combatants - the United States and China - are its biggest trading partners. America accounts for 19% of Japan's total exports, China 18%. The diffusion index - rise minus fall -- of input prices ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... Trump's doing just. To be sure, Trump has the upper hand because the US economy is improving faster than its trade "partners". But what goes around comes around. The New York Tines reports that "China and Mexico have already retaliated with their ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... war, particularly with China - Australia's biggest export client - the consequent growth slowdown in our trading partners would also impact on the domestic economy. All else being equal, the RBA should remain on hold through to end-2018 as the central ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... the euro area of the proposed measures is likely to be small, even if there is symmetric retaliation from US trading partners. But there are potential second-round effects that could have much more serious consequences. These include the risk of retaliation ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... and South Korea until 1 May this year gives him away. POTUS just wants a stronger bargaining position against his trade partners. It's not only the trade war, it's also the S&P 500's expensive valuation wherein which its current prospective P/E ratio ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... 25/10 tariff threat (25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium) this week and there's certain retaliation from trading partners. You can forget the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) rosy, glowing global growth forecasts too for ...

From financial advisers to cybersecurity advocates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... companies. Lee recommends financial advisers ask fund managers, the companies that they're investing in and their trading partners some basic questions on the cybersecurity system they have in place. The challenge is that a security breach, minor or ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... or basic debt." But as members age, he says that "it rises proportionally, because as you start to buy houses and have partners and children, your liabilities increase and therefore your death insurance increases." Howard adds that REST has a "similar ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... wantchinatimes.com, "Russia has banned the import of fruit and vegetables from Poland and is seeking to find Chinese partners to fill the gap, according to Shanghai's China Business News". And it looks better for Russia and China price-wise. "The market ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... change, which is not what stock market investors want to see." Eric Parnell -- founder and director of Gerring Capital Partners - offers a similar warning but from a different perspective in his column, "Stocks and the 7 year itch". He looked at the ...