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Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... fall of the Berlin Wall in the late-1980s and the disintegration of the USSR - basically the end of communism and the Cold War - as providing a peace dividend for all the world to profit from, as necessary spending on defense and espionage became unnecessary ...

Former ambassador assesses US-China trade deal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... Thawley said. He said, economically China is too big to ignore, unlike the much smaller economy of the Soviet Union in the cold war. China enjoyed 20 years of integrating into the wider world economy. This period ended when Xi Jinping came to power ...

EM investors seek China alternative amid trade war

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... strategist Eleanor Creagh warned the breakdown in diplomatic dialogue between China and the US, and the chance of a new "cold war" could hurt Chinese equities. US Vice President Mike Pence indicated in a recent speech that a new era of adversarial relations ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... aggro. I'm looking further out - assuming they don't let the nukes fly, of course - into the future by looking at the 'Cold War' past. The end of the Cold War in the early 1990's brought with it a peace dividend where the cold warring parties were no ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... widely condemned in the West, with the US and the European Union vowing to impose sanctions and bolstering fears of a new Cold War. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its March board meeting, while ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Bloody Vladimir! This must be what US President Barack Obama thought after two-time (2000-2008 and 2012-present) Russian President and two-time (1999-2000 and 2008-2012) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin "asked" and "got" the Russian Parliament's ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... complicate the pursuit of investment opportunities. "Today we have a much less stable geopolitical system than during the Cold War period," Singer explained. "Investors wrongly believe that risks in the market are accidental but understanding the motivations ...

European property the next big game: Perennial

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... He said the number of people in Europe with high relative incomes, due to low taxes and low levels of mortgages post-Cold War, were driving the local market there. Problems still to be overcome were the lack of transparency in the market and weak analyst ...
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