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Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... be lauded for expanding its exports (up 1.4% in the June quarter) amid the global economic slowdown and the lingering US-China trade war, among others. As for imports, the Australian dollar's depreciation is working its magic on the domestic economy ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... again on September 12, it'll find the "rising threat of protectionism" has risen further with the escalation of the US-China trade war. The recently-released IHS Markit Eurozone manufacturing PMI survey gave credence to Draghi's statement at ...

VanEck restructures three ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... reinvestment plans. VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) and VanEck Vectors China AMC CSI 300 ETF (CETF) currently trade on the ASX as a cross-listing of their US-listed fund shares, which was a common ...

Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... disruptions to everyday life and businesses in Hong Kong are taking their toll on the Hang Seng index, compounding the US-China trade war the territory appeared to have overcome since it started in early 2018. After rising by 4% in the first three months ...

Chief economist update: The budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... businesses have upped their capital spending plans in the face of multiplying challenges - trade war, global slowdown led by China and melting emerging markets, Brexit, wobbly share markets and on the domestic front, record high household debt levels ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... of Chinese products from 10% to 25% starting the 10th of May, and a few months prior to the recent escalation of the US-China trade war. What price surplus? Frydenberg has to play the hand he's been dealt. Financial Standard has advocated back in ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... great..." "....My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?" Ordering US companies to move out of China and back into the US: "Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative ...

CommInsure sale stalls, sold for discount

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... Group Holdings. Completion of the sale of the BoCommLife equity interest remains subject to regulatory approval from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), and CBA is working constructively with CBIRC in relation to the process ...

Best online brokers revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... its Online Broking Report. The report also looked at investor sentiment, finding that investors are on edge about the US-China trade conflict, with 55% citing it as a concern. Concern about interest rates soared from 16% in May to 33% in June, which ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... in global economic growth, led by rising expectations for a US recession (and perhaps, Germany); the trade war - US and China, Japan and South Korea; Brexit; political uncertainty (in Hong Kong, in Italy, in Russia and in Argentina). These mounting uncertainties ...