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Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
It's not me, it's you! Yes Virginia, you, I and Irene are very well aware of US president Donald J. Trump's Twitter attacks on the Fed. The last, most significant one was right after US Federal chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." - former US President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., 17 September 2002. Yes Virginia, it was the stuff that brought "Bushism" into our collective ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... pressures, and, thus, headline inflation developments over the medium term." This was what European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi told his audience (and the world) at his press conference straight after the ECB's last monetary policy ...

Pendal hires State Street exec

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... named chief executive for the UK, Europe and Asia businesses. Good was most recently State Street's executive vice president, and chief growth and strategy officer where he was responsible for setting overall business strategy and leading corporate ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... nations. But there's a precedent Jerome, and its name is the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA), enacted by US president Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 (that replaced the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 ). This led to tit-for-tat lowering ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... be Jerome's biggest test since he assumed the Fed chairmanship since February 2018 - nominated by no less than US President Donald Trump himself. Two things are certain. One, Jerome would be careful not to disappoint financial markets that are expecting ...

CFA exam results out, record participation

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... passed. "Our heartiest congratulations go out to all candidates who received great news today of their exam success," CFA president Paul Smith said. "This is an exciting time to be building a career in the investment profession, with ever more opportunities ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... Life and Death of King John Bill Shakespeare might just as well have written this prose about Donald J. - that's President of the United States Donald J. Trump to us all. The global economy was going swimmingly fine (even bolstered) straight after ...

IOOF establishes super trustee office

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... KPMG and non-executive roles, in both the listed and non-listed spaces," Griffiths said. Former Actuaries Institute president and Munich Re chief risk officer Lindsay Smartt has also joined the boards of IOOF and IOOF Investment Management as a new independent ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
US president Donald Trump is envious of Chinese president Xi Jinping. Perhaps it's P-envy (I don't have to spell the word, my head will be summarily chopped off), but US President Trump admitted as much about a year and half ago and before he ...