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But that is not the only or perhaps even the most important factor that has kept him in power.

"The people we've got around us, how we're being managed. how we're being looked after, which is the most important thing. We were last time but people were kind of learning on the job."

This week is the most important stretch of the current earnings season, with five of the Magnificent Seven stocks—Google parent Alphabet, Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Microsoft —on deck to report results.

There is much ground left to cover on trade with other important Asian economies, including South Korea, India, Australia and Taiwan.

However avoiding dazzle was "equally important", he said.