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Chief economist update: US-China tensions escalate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... then again on 10 October 2012: "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." Trump's running for re-election. Trump's poll numbers are in a tailspin. Once the pandemic ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... sentiment over the global growth outlook and therefore, oil demand. Taken alongside, supply disruptions/sanctions in Venezuela, Libya, Iran and others, plus the implementation of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia and ...

Chief economist update: The bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... US sanctions against Iran (expected to be tightened further in May) and the supply disruption caused by the tensions in Libya. But as the International Energy Agency (IEA) notes, "The oil market shows signs of tightening as we move into 2Q19, but we ...

OPEC is not to blame

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... seasonal declines from non-OPEC... OPEC crude supply rose to a nine-month high of 32.63 mb/d in August" due to "rebound in Libya, near record Iraqi output and higher volumes from Nigeria and Saudi Arabia." So there really is no need to fuss over OPEC ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil slips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... sanctions against Iran (and threats that the US would sanction countries importing oil from Iran), supply disruptions in Libya, trouble in Iraq's oil-rich southern region and a strike by oil workers in Norway combined to keep the price of crude elevated. ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... that the president has signed an executive order re-imposing the "travel ban" on six countries (formerly seven) -- Yemen, Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria and Sudan (now excludes Iraq) show Trump's determination to follow through on his promises. Trump's ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... Everybody and their dogs would recall Trump's executive order barring the citizens of seven Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen - from US soil for the next 90 days and the suspension of admission of all refugees for ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... the market but the US Federal financial regulators just issuing warnings to banks that have loaned money to oil companies. Libya's National Oil Corporation issued a statement this week welcoming the announcement by the Presidency Council that the Ras ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... attractive. And then there were three. Geo-political risks remain. People are still killing people in the Ukraine, in Gaza, in Libya, in Syria and in Iraq. This is a wild card for the markets, it also reminds me of Bob Dylan's classic, "... how many ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... never left since early March when Russia annexed Crimea or Syria before that (and now we have Iraq (again), Gaza (again) and Libya (again)), the headlines just chose to ignore them when body counts do not go beyond their normal average. To be sure, there ...
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