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Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... support developed country central banks to go ahead and normalise theirs and then... boom. Tariffs, trade war, reversal on Iran deal, death of NAFTA (now known as USMCA - United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), his ditching of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... 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 the saying goes, what goes ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... black gold's price received another boost in the middle of this year after US President Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatening that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. This sent prices even higher - Brent ...

OPEC is not to blame

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... non-OPEC oil producers) to blame, Trump also had a hand in sending the price of oil higher when he reimposed sanctions on Iran in August this year (followed up by threats of sanctions on countries importing Iranian oil). In its Oil Market Report for ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil slips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... expectations of 1.8 million bpd or that the "real increase" is a smaller 600,000 bpd. Trump's re-imposition of sanctions against Iran (and threats that the US would sanction countries importing oil from Iran), supply disruptions in Libya, trouble ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... despot, Kim Jong Un... The North has broken many promises to forgo nuclear arms". As for Trump, he just recently withdrew the Iran nuclear deal made with Obama and more telling is his change of mind to not endorse the Communique agreed upon over the ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
Move over China and North Korea, you too Iran and Israel, a new old crisis has come back to town...and it could be bigger. While the financial market world still haven't seen the end game of US President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... underway. There's the uncertainty over the US-North Korea summit, the rise in oil prices (because Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal), the fall in oil prices (because Saudi Arabia and Russia plan to increase output), and lately, a developing ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... Trump or North Korea's Kim Jung-on or China's President Xi Jinpeng really thinks. Include the heads of states of Iran, Mexico and Canada. Yes, Virginia, Trump is the one that's calling the shots and playing the tune. This is exemplified by ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... Whether it's part of a "conspiracy" or a "grand plan" to deflect attention away from his recent notice to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal or the transfer of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, only Trump knows. What is clear ...