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Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... so easy to commentate on the day-to-day action on Wall Street these days. Wall Street down... it's because of the US-China trade war, Brexit, Italy, overvaluation, peak earnings, Fed policy mistake. Wash, rinse, repeat at the next down day. Wall ...

Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... resolved one way of another (up or down) - depends primarily on the end game of the on-going trade stoush between the US and China and, of course, how high the Fed is taking interest rates. There's no question that Trump's protectionist trade ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... general slowing in Eurozone economic activity, there's Brexit, and of course, there's Trump's trade war against China. A picture paints a thousand words, so here's what the Fed's policy normalisation has done to emerging markets. ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... investors in the fixed income ETF space, it's a time of reckoning in the age of passive investing. What's New: Eyes on China Commencing 1 April 2019, the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index, will for the first time, include Chinese bonds. ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... from QE to QT. Worries about a hard Brexit have flared back up again. Rome and Brussels still at odds over Italian budget. China policy fine-tuning measures still seen as insufficient. Political atmosphere post US midterm elections remains divisive. ...

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 ...