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Chief economist update: The UK is not OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... UK's problem. The problem is the dent on business and consumer confidence caused by uncertainties from Brexit and US-China trade tensions.

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
How low can they go? Be afraid, be very afraid. A great number of investors are buying into the relative safety of long-term government bonds despite their dwindling yields, and in the case of the Japanese and Eurozone 10-year government bonds, negative ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... because demand for their goods and services are weakening due to the global growth slowdown resulting from the on-going US-China trade war. While current labour market stats indicate continued strong employment growth, consumers would not want to borrow ...

Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... that China's external position was broadly in line with fundamentals. Even by the Treasury's own formal criteria, China does not seem to be a currency manipulator." "To qualify under the Treasury's "enhanced monitoring" system, a country ...

Fintech off to slow start in 2019: KPMG

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... fintech investments have been muted to $3.6 billion across 102 deals, likely driven by trade tensions between the US and China, along with uncertainty and increased regulatory scrutiny by the government, according to the report. Still, less mature areas ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... sure and for certain, it's gonna irritate Trump. Financial markets were shell-shocked after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) allowed the yuan to fall below the psychological threshold of CNY7.0 per US dollar. The official CNY/US$ exchange rate ...

VGI Partners readies $1bn Asian fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia," Luciano said. "We will maintain a watching brief on India, mainland China and the Philippines but will not be investing in companies listed in these jurisdictions for the foreseeable future." Alignment ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... September 1st, putting a small additional Tariff of 10% on the remaining 300 Billion Dollars of goods and products coming from China into our Country" [ sic ]. Yes folks, Trump's fired at China again, and this "small" 10% could presumably be raised ...

Former adviser cops 20-year prison sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... personal expenses. When the loan defaulted in February 2016, Bennett claimed to be unaware of the default as she had been in China for the preceding eight months. However, investigators found no record of international travel at that time. In addition ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... BetaShares geared equities products. GEAR returned 45.2% and GGUS returned 41.2%. These were followed by two VanEck Vectors China ETFs: CNEW and CETF returned just under 30% each. Active ETFs share of inflows weakens Aussie investors strengthened their ...