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Chief economist update: Iron ore up or iron ore down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
Iron ore prices are going to go up. Iron ore prices are headed lower. Iron ore prices will go up and then head down. These are the different forecast permutations on the outlook for iron ore. Here's a quick sampling of the Australian Financial Review's ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
The "Year of the Pig" is turning out to be what it signifies - prosperity, good fortune and success. This is no truer than from the land the 12 animal signs of the lunar calendar zodiac originated - China. This is against consensus expectations that ...

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... Then again, maybe not. For if Trump's just-announced ceasefire turns into a longer-lasting trade truce/deal, then Beijing also stands to benefit. It won't have to expend so many more yuans to reverse its economy's slide. However, with Trump... ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... It could be that China's only flexing its muscles to remind Australia that, you don't mess with the Zohan (er, Beijing).

Former ambassador assesses US-China trade deal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... of the key points for negotiating a new trade deal with China. The US Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin is due to visit Beijing next week to negotiate, as the clock ticks on the US's Chinese imports that could be charged a 25% tariff (up from 10%) ...

ETF issuer hires Olympian

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... its business development team. The British athlete finished fifth in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and seventh in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He also won the gold medal in triple jump at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. In his most recent role, he headed the sales ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
It would be the winter of Australia's agriculture sector if Rabobank's 'Winter Crop Production Outlook' report is any guide. The specialist agribusiness bank predicts that the country's national harvest would drop by 23% in the 2018/19 ...

Chief economist update: Is China starting to slow down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
Be afraid, be very afraid. This appears to be the foreboding flashing on investors' dashboards following yesterday's 3.7% drubbing in the Shanghai composite index and the 0.5% depreciation in the Chinese yuan CNY6.9136 versus the greenback. ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
Just as expected, the Fed's 31 July-1 August meeting was a non-event - keeping the fed funds rate unchanged at 1.75%-20% - but it did give the US central bank a platform to gloat about the US economy. "Information received since the Federal Open ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... - fiscal and monetary - to counteract the negative impact of Trump's tariffs on its economy. And it's not only Beijing; other emerging markets have also been hit prompting their respective central banks and governments to enact mitigating strategies. ...