US: Another one bites the dust – Danske Bank
|Analysts at Danske Bank note that Donald Trump fired his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and appointed CIA director Mike Pompeo in his stead.
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“Rex Tillerson and Gary Cohn were some of the more mainstream officials. Tillerson stood for relatively traditional foreign policy and Cohn for orthodox economic policy.”
“Birds of a feather flock together.Trump issurrounding himself with likeminded people, which translatesinto a preference for unorthodox hawks. Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross are China and trade hawks and Pompeo is a foreign policy hawk.”
“Reflation scare recedes further. US core consumer price inflation came in as expected, moderate and unchanged at 1.8% y/y. To an extent, it corroborated the weakish wage figure from the jobs report. Unchanged CPI and lacklustre wage growth took some of the shine off the US reflation story.”
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