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Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... floodgates to the once-difficult-to-access Chinese equity market. In May 2019, it increased the inclusion factor of all China A large cap stocks from 5% to 10%, and will further increase its exposure in 5% increments over August and November. FTSE Russell ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
The Bloomberg US Dollar Spot index was trading at 96.7680 on the day Trump tweeted the below: "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 ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... the Morrison government's tax rebate is in the mail, the stock market is up, and there are positive whispers over a US-China trade deal. But we're not! A day after the NAB Business Survey showed a sharp drop in business confidence in June, Westpac's ...

Aussie HNWIs slip down global rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... overtaken by Italy. The US remains home to the largest HNWI population (5.3m), followed by Japan (3.2m), Germany (1.4m) and China (1.3m). One of the key drivers of the decline was the flight to cash last December, the report said, following the global ...

Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... investors saying that the US has increased in attractiveness over the last two years," the report said. Investors attracted to China, stay away from Europe More than 80% of the investors said trade tensions were affecting their decisions to allocate ...

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 ...