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Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... generated around 466 billion yuan ($68.6 billion) in tourism revenue during the holiday period." (CNBC) While the Financial Times report that this is well below 2019's total of 782 million trips, it's still the stuff that other nations in lockdown ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... drug hoped to treat COVID-19 had flopped in human trials saw markets fall overnight. Originally reported by the Financial Times, the publisher said Gilead Sciences antiviral drug remdesivir did not reduce the coronavirus pathogen in bloodstreams, nor ...

A coronavirus-bitten cat bounce?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... that easing death rates and infections are now prompting calls for the relaxation of social restrictions. The Financial Times reports that European governments have started preparations to ease lockdown rules. In Australia, the Institute of Public Affairs ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
If financial markets are going to time the beginning of the end - that is, when equity markets started their slippery slide into where we are now, it'll be 9 March 2020. That was the day the music died. Sure, equity markets were already sliding ...

No evidence of fear-driven withdrawals so far: Fiducian

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... clients by phone or video conferencing, the group said, so as to help guide their clients through these difficult financial times. "Well-designed strategies that could withstand such markets have been encouraged for use by our financial planners and ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... investment is junk bonds. It offers relatively higher yield to the investor and relatively lower cost for the issuer. Financial Times notes that energy companies are the biggest issuers of junk bonds, accounting for more than 11% of the US high-yield ...

UK regulator fined for pension failure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... "considerable amount of clearly specified and detailed information" for members of UK pension plans. As reported by the Financial Times, an FCA statement on the matter said the pension plan trustee has moved to rectify the failing. "The FCA pension plan ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus has gone viral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... headline 11 hours ago. The virus has now spread to 15 countries. Presumably, this has increased while I type with Financial Times writing that: "The "reproduction number" is thought to lie between two and four - meaning that, on average, each infected ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... introduction of a two-tier system for reserve remuneration." But Super Mario is getting antsy, as Factset reports: " Financial Times cited comments from outgoing ECB President Draghi... Stressed that all instruments from rates to asset purchases to forward ...

Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... inched up by 0.1% (it closed before the news), China shares traded on the US exchanges dropped. According to the Financial Times : "E-commerce giant Alibaba's shares were down 5%, search engine Baidu dropped almost 4% and the depository receipts ...
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