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Three down one to go, then another three in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... balanced", Powell noted a "rising chorus" of concerns among US businesses over the US-China trade war. "If we have widespread tariffs and a protectionist world, that's going to be bad for American families... and also for other countries," he add ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
Another new set of tariffs will take effect today in the on-going Sino-US trade battle. Yet most equity markets around the world registered gains last week ahead of its implementation. This is because US-China tariff phase two is less onerous than was ...

Chief economist update: Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... that is one factor that certainly we have to look at. The so-called confidence effects; besides the effects on prices and tariffs and quotas and volumes, trade and so on, what is going to be the effect on general confidence of an extended trade war? ...

Chief economist update: Trump's beggar thy neighbour policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... beating his trade war drum louder last week. Now that the "public comment" period is over, Trump is expected to impose tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports and later threatened to tax another US$267 billion of goods coming from China. This ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... tariff on 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 ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... sanctions against two members of Trump's cabinet, to which Trump responded by tweeting that he would double Turkey's tariffs on steel and aluminium. And down, down, down the Turkish lira went. It dropped to an all-time low of lira 6.3714 per ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... retaliation to America's imposition of the same amount on July 6. The Trump administration is reportedly preparing tariffs on US$200 billion on imports from China. The latest China manufacturing PMI surveys - which track the sector most affected ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... Agriculture has reportedly announced a US$12 billion short-term aid program to help farmers impacted by 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 ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... second half of 2019." According to the BOC's statement: "The July projection also incorporates the estimated impact of tariffs on steel and aluminum recently imposed by the US, as well as the countermeasures enacted by Canada. Although there will ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... could also be a spin. At least, that's what I could gauge from the latest Beige Book report which suggests Trump's tariffs are beginning to hurt America. The "Book" isn't made up of figures and numbers and stats but instead anecdotal evidence ...