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Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... as other countries continue to play their games - as they have for many years!" - 7:21 am - 3 Jul 2019 This is the latest tweet from @realDonaldTrump aka US President Donald J. Trump. POTUS is really upping up the ante in his war with the rest of the ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
Financial markets action over the past few days leading up to the June G20 meeting in Osaka - where the main game is between the trade talks between the two biggest economies in the world, the United States and the People's Republic of China - suggests ...

Chief economist update: Fed plans for Trump contingency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... Then again, it could be that the Fed has gotten to understand Trump well enough and is thus, insuring against another Trump tweet that could once again, escalate trade tensions. An escalation of trade tensions is in Trump's interest for it'll ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
Mexico (and the world) is breathing a sigh of relief after Trump's tweet "indefinitely" suspending his tariff threat against America's southern neighbour. But POTUS being Trump, he's exploited this "win" to issue fresh tariff threats versus ...

Chief economist update: US recession in the offing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... organisations and individuals that it deems "unreliable" for harming Chinese companies." While I consider Trump's latest battle tweet a stroke of genius, it puts the onus and the expense on Mexico to pay for measures to stop illegal migrants coming ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
If very, very recent history is any guide, US President Donald Trump would soon be tempering his trade war tweets versus China. Trump did so early this year - prompting financial markets and economic and business agents to expect that a trade deal is ...

Chief economist update: The tweet that reignited the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... the US-China trade war, spooking financial markets which - since the beginning of the year and up to the minute before the tweet - expected a deal on trade was just a handshake away. "For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... motorcycles. Threatened tariffs would be implemented only after WTO gave final approval this summer." It started with a tweet. On 9 April 2019, @realDonaldTrump tweeted: "The World Trade Organization finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus ...

NZ Super responds to Australian social media laws

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
NZ Super, which has been active in calling for action on social media companies following the streaming of the Christchurch terror attacks, has responded to new laws passed in Australia. The laws, passed last week, mean that executives of social media ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
Robert Mueller's findings that US President Donald Trump did not collude with Russia during the 2016 election campaign is good news for the global share markets, Financial Standard's latest spot poll shows. The majority of readers (68%) agree that ...