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Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... stock market rout that developed as a result of the renewed "little squabble" (as Trump recently put it) between the US and China is evidence enough that no country is safe from the higher tariff tit-for-tat between these two economic behemoths. Trump ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... taking his ease, give him no rest." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War Trump must be fuming and scratching his golden hair. Not that China retaliated for his lifting of tariffs on goods imported from China - Trump and his dog expected as much - but that the financial ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... general, but it certainly didn't apply to the 11th hour, last minute trade negotiations between the United States and China on the May 9 that resulted in a no deal. As a consequence, as at 12:01am Friday on the May 10 (New York time), US tariffs ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... Trump has already started the paperworks to impose new 25% tariffs on an additional US$325 billion worth of imports from China. Bloomberg reports on the consequence, writing: "Imposing tariffs on all U.S/China trade would reduce global gross domestic ...

Chief economist update: The tweet that reignited the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... about him is his unpredictability. With just two tweets, POTUS reignited hostilities (and perhaps an escalation) of the US-China trade war, spooking financial markets which - since the beginning of the year and up to the minute before the tweet - expected ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... "The outlook for the global economy remains reasonable, although growth has slowed and downside risks have increased... In China, the authorities have taken steps to ease financing conditions," it said. China's - our biggest trading partner - economy ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... among world central banks is starting to regenerate global growth momentum. Not to mention, the peace dividend that a US-China trade deal brings. Financial developments? Both the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq composite index surpassing their all-time ...

Future Fund crosses $150 billion

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... in public equity markets, no doubt influenced by the US Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates and easing US-China trade tensions," Future Fund chair Peter Costello said. "The Future Fund continues to make good progress on its objective to ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... Low since 1969 US March Budget Gap Smaller than Expected What immediately came to my balding head was... will the Fed do a China? Beijing has reverted back from stimulating activity to "reform and opening up" and "restructure" of the economy. The Fed ...

Chief economist update: China is back on track

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
"Spring is the time of plans and projects." - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. So it is with China. Recent economic indicators have turned up in time for spring. China deserves to be congratulated. It's watered and fertilised the economy with enough ...