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Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... and less anticipating falls in income - 7.0 % from 8.1%. Underwriting this booming confidence is, of course, US President Trump's promised reflationary policies - mainly tax cuts and fiscal spending on infrastructure (and the Wall?) -- and the US Federal ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... in the end, I think it's going to be an experience that leads to an even better healthcare plan." - Remarks by President Trump on the Health Care Bill. Yes Virginia, US President Donald Trump learned a lot last week. The unfolding events did, however ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... current expectations du jour - inevitable Fed rate hike on the 15th of March (and how many more thereafter) and US president Trump's reflationary policies (would they be passed in full, scaled down, or abandoned) are recent developments in China - the ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... points; the Nasdaq at 5,904.03 points and the Russell 2000 at 1,413.64 points - on 1 March 2017. This was the day US president Trump addressed the joint session of Congress that was speculated to trigger sell orders if he doesn't spell out the details ...

Mexican pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... bones but words will never hurt me". But not for Mexico, it appears, especially when the words come from POTUS. US President Trump's rhetoric about "building a wall along the US-Mexican border"...and making Mexico pay for that wall is hurting the country ...

Heading the ECB's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... euro. However, this would also strengthen calls for "tapering" from the ECB. More worrying, this would strengthen President Trump's disquiet about the "too strong" US dollar. Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro has reportedly taken aim at the euro recently ...

From strength to strength

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
It may be difficult to swallow latest survey data but President Trump's reflationary agenda has brought out the animal - animal spirits that is - among US manufacturers. This is the indication from the just-released Markit Flash US Manufacturing PMI. ...

Still unsure about POTUS 45

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... from 20 January 2017, Donald Trump - the 45th president of the United States - became known in twitterland as President Trump or @POTUS. Not only that, his fingers are now on the "nuclear codes" too. Recall now ex-President Obama's warning two days before ...

Will the real Trump please stand up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
Are you ready to say 'President Trump' out loud? Like him or loathe him, investors are eager to meet the president behind the publicity hound. Their savings depend on it. On the eve of his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, many ...

Machineries not in order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... the December quarter from plus 6 in the previous three quarters. Still, this is clouded by the uncertainty over President Trump's trade policies. More so, given his latest rhetoric on cross-border tax - i.e. export earnings tax free but imports taxed ...