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Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... statement that US tariffs were "kind of insulting", gave him the exit he desired. There was no backing out of the US-North Korean Summit on June 12, though. Trump's got his eyes on the Nobel Peace Prize. The summit concluded well with US President ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... History is about to be made on 12 June 2018 at Sentosa Island in Singapore between the leader of the free world and the North Korean supremo. It's going to be a "win-win" deal according to US President Donald Trump. In all likelihood, North Korean ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what you will of it, but I think Trump ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
History was made when North Korean supremo Kim Jung-un took one step south of the Korean DMZ (demilitarised zone) to shake hands with his southern counterpart, South Korea president Moon Jae-in. An epic in itself, it invalidates Rudyard Kipling's (re-phrased) ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... a-plenty last week for speculators and investors to digest for guidance on what lies ahead. There's the lingering North Korean nuclear threat - although this has barely made it to headlines over the past week; there's Brexit and reports that the UK and ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... holdings and cheapen share prices. But alas! Most share markets closed stronger. These, despite the escalation of US-North Korean tensions (and this time, it became personal between Trump and Jong-Un); S&P's downgrade of China's credit rating; distortions ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
Unless North Korean tensions escalate beyond the "missile testing" tit-for-tat, it'll be the Fed that will occupy financial market consciousness this week. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will start their two-day deliberations on monetary policy ...

China slows to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... yuan/$US exchange rate dipped by 0.4% on the day the data were released (but these could also be due to the renewed US-North Korean tensions.) Still, a slightly longer view shows that the Shanghai Composite index have risen by 8.6% this year to date ...

Markets are stronger than Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... it's dangerous to attempt to orient one's investment decisions around political ephemera - citing Donald Trump and North Korean hostilities as examples. "Your ultimate question should be around what's going on with individual companies," she explained. ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... questions about North Korea, yes, they will talk about those nuclear weapons and they will talk about the threat from North Korean missiles. But if you walk around downtown Seoul it's business as usual. Life goes on and there's no sense of panic or no ...
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