Francis Lun, CEO of GEO Securities, says the global economy will enter a very long winter if Presidents Trump and Xi cannot reach a trade deal by the end of June and allow the markets to rebound in July.

Commenting on David Li stepping down as Chairman of the Bank of East Asia, Ronald Wan, Non-Executive Chairman at Partners Financial Holdings, says the bank has been too conservative in the past years, and he expects it to be run in a more dynamic fashion going forward.

Toby Lawson, Head of Global Markets at Societe Generale Australia, says that in the first week since the election, the Australian stock market has been an outperformer relative to the rest of the world - to the satisfaction of investors.