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Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... US$86.07/barrel recorded on the 4 October. The slide came after Trump decided to be "magnanimous" in exempting eight countries -- China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and South Korea - from buying Iranian oil. OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... upswing that prevailed until the first quarter of this year is no more - while the US economy continues to go gangbusters, China is slowing, the Eurozone is losing momentum and an increasing number of emerging economies are either in or heading for contraction. ...

October volatility sours investor outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... issue investors were concerned about. Tensions between the world's major economies (40%), global debt levels (33%) and China slowing down (32%) are also concerning factors. State Street's Investor Confidence Index registered a similarly gloomy ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... economy of the Middle Kingdom will flow through into ours. Austrade data shows we shipped 29.6% of our total exports to China in FY 2016/17. In turn, exports account for more than 20% of the Australian economy (World Bank data). So what's happening ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... "trade war" and "closed borders". Those extra workers America needs but couldn't fill can be sub-contracted to Mexico or China - easing domestic inflation pressures that, in turn, will keep the US Federal Reserve at bay. I bet Trump's already ...

AustralianSuper to cut equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... was "inevitable", classifying it as the highest-priority item on the investment team's watch list, followed by the US-China trade war, and lastly a crash in Aussie housing. "We are going to start reducing our share weightings because that's the ...

EM investors seek China alternative amid trade war

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The intensity of the US and China trade war roiling the equity markets is worrying investors who are seeking alternative emerging markets exposure. This is according to King Irving Funds Management managing director Kate Mulligan, who sees emerging ...

Super funds react to market sell off

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... start of the year, on the back of a slump in US equities, rising interest rates and escalated trade tensions between US and China. This was close to the index's level of 5652 seen on 4 October 2017. The markets have rebounded slightly from Thursday's ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... by 3.5% over the same period (after growing by 9.3% in the second quarter) due largely to a drop in US soybean exports to China. The inflation measures embedded in the US National Accounts would surely give President Donald Trump more ammunition on his ...

Beware the fintech Ponzi scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... as P2P platforms. In a paper released by the SWIFT Institute titled "Quo Vadis? A comparison of the fintech revolution in China and the West", the joint authors Dr. Bonnie Buchanan and Dr. Cathy Xuying Cao provided a comprehensive report of the development ...