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Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... months," he said. Investors' concerns centred on the tension between the world's major economies. US President Donald Trump's administration was a main concern for more than half (53%) of investors, followed by China's economy slowing ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... in the services industry. We all know the why's and wherefores of this and its name is "Tariff Trump". US President Donald Trump's declaration of the 25/10 tariff on steel/aluminium on 1 March 2018 set the wheels of global economic activity and ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... bells that something must be wrong with the US and/or it has sacrificed its independence and kowtowed to President Donald Trump. But financial markets cannot have their cake and eat it too. The Fed disappointed expectations for only a single rate hike ...

Chief economist update: The clown in the White House

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
It's hard not to agree with US President Donald Trump's latest tweet: "It is incredible that with a very strong dollar and virtually no inflation, the outside world blowing up around us, Paris is burning and China way down, the Fed is even considering ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
With one tweet, US President Donald Trump reversed all of Wall Street's gains... and then some. "....I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
Are we seeing US President Donald Trump's "The Art of the Deal" in real-time, live and in action? Ever since Trump declared a trade war with China in late March this year, there have been actual implementations, threats, some concessions and now ...

Chief economist update: Buy the dip or sell the rallies?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... drop on Wall Street on anything else but is simply not rational. The same way the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has done with his tweet: "The prospect of presidential harassment by the Dems is causing the stock market big headaches!" ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... in oil production after the OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting in Algiers on 23 September. Not after US president Donald Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatened that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. But as ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... record low of 0.988K recorded in May 1969. Whether by luck or design, the booming US economy would have been US president Donald Trump's major legacy to the world - with America super charging growth all around the globe. But alas! Reminiscent of ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... soybean exports to China. The inflation measures embedded in the US National Accounts would surely give President Donald Trump more ammunition on his verbal attack on the US Federal Reserve. This is because despite persistently strong and unquestionably ...