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Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... foreign steel and a 10% tariff on foreign aluminium in the name of "national security" that begot retaliatory tariffs from China, Canada, Japan, the European Union and Mexico, among others. Australia was exempted. Emerging markets - most of which are ...

Chief economist update: Look ma, inflation ate my wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... rise). These adverse domestic developments, along with a litany of negative external ones - trade war, slowing global growth (China, in particular), falling commodity prices, emerging market sell-off, etc. - should propel the RBA to act (cut interest ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... activity a move along. Raising interest rates now risks an A$ appreciation (not a good idea when our biggest export market - China - is in the midst of a trade war with Uncle Trump) but cutting interest rates now could re-ignite the already slowing housing ...

Chief economist update: The grass is paler on the China side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... inches away from target - core PCE price inflation was at 1.9% in June. The US economy has withstood the tariff levied by China on US$34 billion of US imports in retaliation to America's imposition of the same amount on July 6. The Trump administration ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... China's retaliatory tariffs. Trump's very visible hand in trade has forced his hand on his farmers and ditto on China. The more Trump extends his tariffs and import restrictions on China and America's trading partners, the more the number ...

Westpac names independent director

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... region. Prior to HSBC, Fung held a number of roles at Standard Chartered Bank. She is currently a non-executive director of China Construction Bank Corporation, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Hang Lung Properties and the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation. ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
US President Donald Trump has again upped the rhetoric against China (which of course, brought back trepidation over an escalation of the trade war) and most recently he went on attack against his own central bank - the US Federal Reserve. Apparently ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... followed by a 25% tariff on US$34 billion worth of Chinese shipments to the US (and another US$200 billion of imports from China to be taxed soon). Not surprisingly, China retaliated in equal measures. These are just the headlined reports of the on-going ...

Sovereign investors change tack: Invesco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... bank reserve managers across the globe representing $17 trillion of assets. Invesco chief executive officer for Greater China, Southeast Asia and Korea, Terry Pan said that global sovereign investors have made clear their interest in equity exposure ...

Chief economist update: Friday when the trade war began

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... July 2018, when at exactly 12:01 am (NY time), the US imposed a 25% tariff on US$34 billion of Chinese imports to which China immediately responded with a percent-for-percent and dollar-for-dollar border tax of its own on "Made in the USA" produce. This ...