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Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... currency are conducted repeatedly and total at least 2 percent of an economy's GDP over a 12-month period. Based on the US Treasury's findings, China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Switzerland and India are thus put in the "Monitoring List". "Japan, Germany ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... indicating more expensive credit that could slow consumer and spending. This, along with surging bond yields - 10-year US Treasury bond yields rose to 2.84% at the end of last week, its highest level in four years from 2.66% in the previous week and ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... shows that the US dollar dropped 1.0% overnight - taking its 2018-to-date decline to minus 3.2% -- on the back of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comments At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that, "Obviously a weaker dollar is good ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... out wrong...again. Bill was still head honcho at PIMCO (in 2011) when he decided in March of that year to exit the US Treasury market completely, expecting interest rates there to climb on expectations that the Fed would end QE2 by the middle of the ...

US recommends asset manager stress tests be removed

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
US Treasury released a report overnight that makes several recommendations for its financial services industry, including the elimination of statutory stress testing for investment managers. The stress testing call came as part of several recommendations ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... following his victory and inauguration, equity markets are again giving him the benefit of the doubt. More so, after the US Treasury released the government's tax reform plan on 27 September, entitled "Unified Framework for Fixing our Broken Tax Code." ...

Reflation narrative lacks substance: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... that clearly impacted the Chinese economy, and what they did in response was create that narrative. That period in US Treasury terms, pre-Trump, was a Chinese-driven reflation," he said. Adams also argued that the growth "spike" that occurred following ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... could understand or even China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany or Switzerland - for these are the countries the US Treasury Department (in its recent semi-annual report) placed on a "currency manipulators' watch list. But Canada -- One of America's ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... before the joint-session of Congress, where he, hopefully, will deliver the details of his reflationary policies. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has hinted that POTUS will talk about his tax-reform plan - corporate and personal income tax reform. ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... some significance, maybe 30% or more, likely after mid-year or maybe early next. The key will be the level of 10-year US Treasury yields - we think somewhere between three and 3.5% on treasury bonds. And the signal for US rates to the next step upward ...