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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 ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... the public and the U.S. Congress", not the president of the day. This sharply contrasts with the People's Republic of China, highlighting the advantage of a dictatorial regime (which Trump dreams of) to that of a democratic one in times of crises. ...

Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... Factset: "Some factors cited for today's bounceback include oversold conditions, recent positive developments around US and China trade, China's plan to boost income, potential German fiscal policy stimulus, US economic data holding up despite ...

Short-seller targets infant formula importer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... Kabrita. Blue Orca research discovered discrepancies between the way Kabrita is marketed in Europe and the US compared to in China. "Kabrita falsely claims in its leading Chinese e-commerce stores that the lactose in its goat milk infant formula comes ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... if it were, central banks are running low on bullets. There's Trump's war (trade or otherwise) with everybody - China, Mexico, Iran, the EU, climate change, etc. The debilitating effect of which has now prompted Japan and South Korea to engage ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... tariffs on US imports from 25.9% to 50%. What did this produce? Other countries imposed retaliatory tariffs on US imports (as China is doing now). US imports decreased by 66% between 1929 and 1933 and its exports plunged 61%. Ouch! We all know what happened ...