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Excise tax, super top budget worries

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... Oliver explains. "But I suspect there will be some goodies in the budget that they will roll out during the election campaign. Say, if they are going to increase the subsidies for childcare payments." Meanwhile, some matters cannot wait to be rolled ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... This is because inflation expectations have been rising. They're now at levels higher than the Fed's rate hike campaign between 2017 and 2019 and when then chair Janet Yellen announced the first rate hike (in December 2016) since the global financial ...

Chief economist update: China's vote for US president

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... years with the old one? America remains on knife-edge as the November 3 US presidential elections show that President Donald Trump and contender Joe Biden still have to secure the 270 electoral votes to claim the Oval Office. The world's anxiously ...

Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... recovery in the US economy... threatening Trump's re-election campaign. So much so, that, according to Factset: "President Trump signed a combination of memorandums and an executive order on Saturday, following through on a threat to act unilaterally ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... However, Nikko Asset Management's chief global strategist John Vail believes investors do not expect US President Donald Trump will make any rash decisions prior to the presidential election. "China also seems willing to accept increased pressure ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... special drawing rights after the US dollar and the euro. It would have been celebrations all around but US President Donald Trump and the recent protests and riots in Hong Kong are raining on the Politburo's parade - both threatening to further weaken ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... on the Fed. The last, most significant one was right after US Federal chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole: Trump let loose on Twitter, virtually naming Powell an enemy of the state, saying: "As usual, the Fed did NOTHING! It is incredible ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... Jerome's biggest test since he assumed the Fed chairmanship since February 2018 - nominated by no less than US President Donald Trump himself. Two things are certain. One, Jerome would be careful not to disappoint financial markets that are expecting ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
As if the world hasn't had enough of the overhanging pall engendered by lingering trade tensions, US President Trump is about to raise the stakes and expand the scope to currency manipulators. This I learned from The New York Times (NYT) on May ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... to outperform. In response to the report, Trump tweeted on March 25: "The Special Counsel did not find that the Trump Campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian Government in these efforts, despite multiple offers ...
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