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Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... with both dropping below the US$50.00 psychological level roundabout the time of US president Trump's failure to get Obamacare repealed/replaced. In its "World Economic Outlook Update" report released in January this year, the IMF predicted that the ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... (see yesterday's report), the Conference Board's consumer confidence survey cut off on 16 March -- one week before the Obamacare repeal/replace failed. There might be some give back on the consumer confidence reading next month but there's also the potential ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... triggered by anything imaginable under the sun, but the financial markets' correction - due to Trump's repeal/replace Obamacare failure - should be seen as that, one that "corrects" overvalued levels that have run ahead of fundamentals. It's a healthy ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... government trifecta - White House, Congress, Senate - the Donald, the "dealmaker", was unable to negotiate a deal to repeal Obamacare. While it's a slap on the face for the US president, it shouldn't matter much for the US economy or for the markets ...

Still unsure about POTUS 45

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... again, like them they would be assumptions of suppositions of speculations (over reflation, fiscal spending, taxes, Obamacare, protectionism and Putin). For POTUS45 is just a walking, talking, tweeting behemoth of uncertainty so I reserve judgment. "The ...

Will the real Trump please stand up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... At PIMCO, the head of public policy, Libby Cantrill, has her eye on four agenda items for 2017. Everybody knows about Obamacare and how Trump wants to get rid of it but to date, the incoming president has been ambivalent on the details of three factors ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... said governments should also buy gold, build infrastructure such as the US Keystone Pipeline, and scrap reforms like Obamacare. However, he said the chances of such "structural reforms" going ahead are zero, and therefore predicted social unrest, the ...

Last minute deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... seal the deal by agreeing to establish "new measures to try to prevent federal subsidies from being paid under the new 'Obamacare' healthcare law to people whose incomes make them ineligible" (Reuters), Ohio Republican and House Speaker John Boehner ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... consideration amid mounting opposition from Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee - reinforced by his close association with Obamacare, the Frank-Dodd reforms and the post-GFC auto stimulus. US Senator Charles Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat ...

Obama re-election to boost healthcare and banking stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... also ends speculation about the unwinding of major pieces of legislation such as the Dodd-Frank banking reforms and 'Obamacare'. Birkhold says increased bank regulation and tighter capital requirements could see a fall in bank share prices as banks are ...
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