Hold your breath for jam-packed week ahead

EVER-PESSIMISTIC Eeyores may be sighing in vindication, after global risk buckled up for a rollercoaster ride. And the tensions could well carry over into the next few days.

No sooner did the United States Treasury Secretary pronounce a trade war with China "on hold" last week than his president declare himself "not satisfied" with bilateral talks.

And no sooner had North Korea professed its nuclear facilities dismantled than US President Donald Trump called off a planned summit that would have been held here next month, in a move that United Overseas Bank's global economics and markets research team called "the biggest geopolitical bombshell of the week".