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Chief economist update: Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... France was "at war", India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, compared it to Mahabharata (The Great War), and Chinese supremo, Xi Jinping called it the 'People's War'. We may not all be "marines now" as Clint Eastwood's character Gunny ...

Chief economist update: Brexit la la la

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... combinations and permutations that could transpire after the December 12 elections, depending on who reigns supreme and if the supremo gets the majority vote. Given Brexit's historical precedence, it's understandable that Britons and Europeans ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... 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 President ...

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) ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
The Middle Kingdom's supremo, Chinese President Xi Jinpeng, sent equity markets on the up and up. Instead of talking tough and raising the ante on the brewing trade war with the US, Xi announced the opposite. In his speech at the Boao Forum for Asia ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... the deal" tactic or a true blue (fallacious) plan to make "America Great Again," only Trump knows - problem is, China's Supremo isn't blinking. To be sure, the prospect of an escalating trade war between the world's number-one and number-two biggest ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries trail lower

... 0.41%. The Nikkei index plunged 309.99 points or 2.94% as technology stocks reacted badly to a video tape of Al Qaeda supremo Osma bin Laden and renewed fears of terrorism gripped markets on the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US. ...
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