Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 71 - 80 of 258 results for "Republic"

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... 'Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974 (China-Specific Safeguards)' which specifies that: "If a product of the People's Republic of China is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities or under such conditions as to cause or threaten ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
"The French complain of everything, and always," Napoleon Bonaparte once said. The French made known their disenchantment with the establishment political parties - both the Republican and Socialist parties failed to garner enough support to make it ...

Republic Capital chief executive departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
Republic Capital's chief executive left the company after four months in the position. Joining in September 2016, and having been chief executive of Resource Super for three years, Tim Baker left Republic Capital in January this year. He has previously ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... York (yes, in the US of A), was "If the United States dares opt for a military action...the DPRK - Democratic People's Republic of Korea - is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the Americans...We will take the toughest counteraction against ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Be careful what you wish for... No Virginia, except for Putin, the majority of world leaders didn't wish for Trump. So far away from Good Friday, they would have crucified US presidential "candidate" Donald Trump (if that was legal). In mid-January ...

Markets fear Trump effect on global trade

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Beyond the initial market sell-off, investors might have a bigger worry ahead if US President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his global trade platform. The Republican presidential nominee is heading for the White House after securing the most votes ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Donald Trump - the "misogynist", the "sexual predator", the "racist", the "lying cheat", the "clown", the "narcissist", "the most hated man in America" is now President-elect of America. No one, or so it seems, like him. Not the media - mainstream and ...

Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
If you've placed a bet on last week's Melbourne Cup - and lost - poor you. But while "the race that stops a nation" has come and gone, we're only a few sleeps away from the race that could stop the world. Clinton and Trump's race for the White House ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
Just when we thought Halloween was over, things are still going bump day and night. Things like the VIX - "fear" - index. It bumped up to a reading of 22.1 overnight, just six points shorts of this year's high of 28.1 reached on the 11th of February. ...

Buffett fires back at Trump tax claims

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has hit back at Donald Trump's criticism of his tax affairs in the latest presidential debate by publishing tax returns showing he's never used the tax deduction exploited by the Republican nominee. During the debate ...