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Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... from devastation wrought by the bushfires, the lockdown forced on society by the coronavirus and, just in, a brewing trade war with China - its biggest trading partner. China has recently banned meat imports from Australia, citing violations of quarantine ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... global credit crisis and recession after the coronavirus outbreak struck an economy already weakened by two years of trade war and an aggressive Fed rate hike cycle," Spivak said. "If the slowdown punctures any bubbles built up through the ultra-accommodative ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... remained reasonably priced, investors tending in recent years to worry about industrial slowdown, financial reform and the trade war, and even giants like Tencent do not fully reflect their potential in their stock prices." Yeung warned the worse could ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's trade war -- and other challenges in-between -- proved no match for central bank money Throw enough money at the problem and the problem ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street sneezes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... index's present reading is the highest since December 2018. At the time, that fear was instilled by the ongoing US-China trade war (back then) and when the Fed "murdered" the bull market by delivering another 25 bps hike in the fed funds rate to ...

Remain liquid, defensive and patient: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... to Mihkel Kase, portfolio manager - fixed income at Schroders. Kase said the concerns investors faced in 2019 - think trade war and Brexit - have come and gone leaving markets relatively unscathed. "The market focus has moved on and we have sailed through ...

Coronavirus to infect Q2: Capital Group

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... China. "People were getting happier about China's economy this year based on the look of the stimulus, the end of the trade war, and the consumer doing okay," Green said. "I came into this year believing that things were going to be tougher than ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 could hit Australia with triple whammy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... financial market anxiety whenever China's actual stats come in lower than expectations, or at the height of the US-China trade war? This is because China now accounts for around 17% of the global economy - more than four times the 4% during the SARS ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... Carney's job was made difficult by Grexit (just before he was appointed BOE Governor), then Brexit, then US-China trade war, among others... and now, the coronavirus scare. In spite of these, Sterling's effective exchange rate is currently at ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... mention of the euro exchange rate though - she was astute enough not to as it might give Trump extra ammunition on renewed trade war offensive toward the Eurozone. The fact remains that the euro's depreciation versus the US dollar is giving the single ...