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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... March 2011 (US$3.045 trillion) and marks the fifth straight month of decline and is reportedly due to the Chinese central bank's sales of US dollars to support the yuan. China's foreign exchange reserves peaked at US$3.993 trillion in June 2014. Japan ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... same time anticipating further increases in exports of resources as completed projects come online. The Australian central bank also noted that that the commodity price rise over the course of the year are providing a boost to national income but that ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Reflation - the word that dominated central bank memes after the global financial crisis is back in vogue. While it became something of "it's at the back of everyone's minds, but not talked about" in intervening years, President-elect Trump has brought ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
... highest since December 2015 (minus 5.7) - from minus 8 in the previous month, supporting speculations that the European Central Bank (ECB) will remain on hold, at least for the duration of this year. UK industrial trends The Confederation of British ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... help contain inflation -- the same US dollar strength that's also aiding the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank's (ECB) quest towards faster growth and higher inflation. The euro is down 2.6% versus the greenback this year to date (it ...

A mining renaissance courtesy of President Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
I guess it's safe to say that Trump has got all - or nearly most of us - stumped, including Trump. "Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States", according to documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore. In hindsight ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... ridiculed, dismissed... It's the central banks of the world that wished for, indirectly perhaps, Trump. Note that central bank head honchos have been asking for "fiscal support" in recent times. Speaking before the Economic Club of New York last 29 March ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... immediate impact will be visible in the emerging markets. Indeed we have already seen the Peso fall and the Mexican central bank call an emergency meeting. The last time the Mexican peso experienced such a fall the Mexican central bank intervened and ...

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 ...