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Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... fallacious. The temporary exemptions to the tariff increase granted by Trump to the EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until 1 May this year gives him away. POTUS just wants a stronger bargaining position against his trade ...

Tariff exemption a sigh of relief: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... both leaders are "working very quickly on a security agreement so we don't have to impose steel or aluminium tariffs." Mexico and Canada are also exempt. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive James Pearson said Australia must now ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... Download The Good Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data As Bloomberg reports: "Trump agreed to exclude Canada and Mexico from the duties because of their status as key regional allies and partners with the US in renegotiating a new North ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... expected to temporarily raise US growth, with favourable demand spillovers for US trading partners - especially Canada and Mexico-during this period." The report also showed the IMF significantly lifting its "world trade volume (good and services)" growth ...

Latin America: the best-kept investment secret

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... America's Pacific Alliance presents many opportunities for investors. The alliance - comprising Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico - was described as a "secret well kept" by SURA Investment Management chief investment officer Juan Carlos Botero. He told ...

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... look at countries "starting from a low economic base." He continued: "Think India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico: these are countries where the consumption patterns you and I take for granted are not taken for granted. Here, if you want ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... goods and services from China at 17.1% of total - more than its historical biggest trading partners Canada (14.5%) and Mexico (12.0%). The Federal Reserve Board was correct (back then), the correlation between US and Chinese inflation was loose at best ...

Personal security concerns reach new high: Unisys

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... largest increase of the 13 countries surveyed, behind only the Netherlands. "While the emerging markets of Philippines, Mexico, Malaysia, Brazil and Argentina recorded the highest index scores, the biggest increases are in the mature markets of Netherlands ...

Latin America on institutional investment radar

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... equities Felipe Asenjo believes valuable investment opportunities especially lie in the Pacific Alliance - the countries of Mexico, Chile, Columbia and Peru. Asenjo expects that for the next three years, companies in this region will have a compound ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... time the Trump administration has trained its sights on, surprise of surprises, its ally and next-door neighbour, Canada. Mexico, I could understand or even China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany or Switzerland - for these are the countries the US ...