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HSBC quietly exits financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... strengthening the Hong Kong operation and investing in wealth, which includes insurance and asset management. Supporting the China-led Belt and Road Initiative and a low carbon economy is also on the agenda. In Australia, HSBC said it will focus on growing ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... growth and recovery in all countries, and we are beginning to see this reflected in some forward-looking indicators..." While China - and its bear market in equities and the depreciating yuan - will immediately come to mind, Japan's also taking a ...

Advisory and wealth firm appoints chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... competition re-shape the way services are delivered," he said. "With an extensive footprint in Australia, New Zealand and China, Bentleys is well-placed to capitalise in this changing environment. "In addition, our relationship with Kreston provides ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... over impact." Those who still remember their history will recall that time in August 2015 when the People's Bank of China (PBOC) devalued the yuan from 6.21 to 6.40 per one yankee dollar. The MSCI world index dropped by 10% in response and the MSCI ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? If we're talking about the US and China, it appears that the answer is that the immovable object (China) drops. China's Shanghai Composite index dropped to 2844.51 points from ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... "The indirect impact on the Japanese economy could be quite significant...if this escalation of tariffs between the US and China continues"... while at the same time warning that it could disrupt supply chains in Southeast Asia. "I hope that this escalation ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... bombshell with Trump giving the go-ahead to slap tariffs on US$50 billion worth of Chinese imports and warning of more if China retaliates. Well, China did. It announced a retaliatory 25% tariff on US$50 billion worth of US imports. It'll be pitiful ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... would want to win for winning's sake. Still, we cannot discount a saner and longer-term objective of short-circuiting China and Russia's influence on North Korea and reducing the threat to its allies in the Asian region - South Korea and Japan ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... speculations have died down or that Japan's response to Donald Trump's tariff increases has been less confrontational than China, the EU or even Canada but Japan had rarely been on headlines in recent times. It's back again when Prime Minister Shinzo ...