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Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
"China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being the dummies who sit back and politely watch as other countries continue to play their games ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... leaders of the G18 could all have stayed at home and nobody would have noticed. The world's attention was all about the US-China trade deal or no deal tete-a-tete. The news of Trump and Xi's face-to-face has so far been good - with both leaders ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... iron ore exporter (Australia, which accounts for around 50% of total world iron ore exports) has the biggest oil importer (China, which buys more than 65% of total imports) to thank for this, and perhaps US President Donald Trump and his war on trade ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... between the trade talks between the two biggest economies in the world, the United States and the People's Republic of China - suggests participants are hoping for the best rather than preparing for the worst. Face-to-face negotiations are, after ...

Beware tech firms in financial services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... population might not have a bank. The tech companies with the most complete financial services offerings right now are based in China and Japan. Alibaba (including its subsidiaries Alipay and Tencent), Baidu, Line (including Rakuten) and NTT Docomo all ...

Chief economist update: BOE lets peers do the heavy lifting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... stimulus derived from other major central banks' move towards lower interest rates (and fiscal relaxation in the case of China) should, in time, reverse the downward momentum in global economic growth that would lift all boats, including the UK. ...

Chief economist update: Fed plans for Trump contingency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... the Fed pause that was put in place in early 2019 should remain on pause. This makes sense given the recent positive US-China trade rhetoric. Then again, it could be that the Fed has gotten to understand Trump well enough and is thus, insuring against ...

Will financial advisers cease to exist?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... figure will grow to 1.2 million over the next 10 years. The markets expected to see the greatest growth are India (33%), China (26%), the UK (10%) and US (9%). "The asset management industry of the future may increasingly be driven by decisions in Asian ...

BetaShares launches new active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... of launch, including Alibaba, Tencent, Samsung Electronics and Ping An Insurance Group. Top allocations by country are in China (26%), South Korea (14.7%), Taiwan (10.9%), India (10.5%) and by sector are in financials (26.7%), information technology ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... America). Trump might get what he wants from the Fed too. For as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde recently warned: "US-China tariffs-including those implemented last year-could reduce global GDP by 0.5 percent in 2020. This amounts to a loss of ...