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Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
Joggin' Joe hits the ground running. Not soon after he was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America, Joe Biden rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Hours after his inauguration, Biden signed 17 executive orders, memorandums ...

MySuper performance recovers, hits record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... index has reached a record high, bouncing back 15% since March 2020. November saw the local and international share markets rally. The ASX200 returned 10.2% while global stock markets gained 7.5%. Consequently, the MySuper Index registered 2.4% on a ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... from home" technologies prompted by social and business restrictions wrought by the coronavirus. Wall Street's 2020 rally is perfectly rationale given vaccine optimism and the end of President Donald Trump's term in office. But underlying all ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... to the "Sage of Omaha's" widely-known investing principle for who would have dreamed that the US equity market would rally to new heights amid the nightmare of the coronavirus pandemic that, in turn sent the US economy collapsing at an annualised ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... over a million deaths. Iron ore prices ended the first nine months of 2020 at US$124.02/metric tonne, representing a 35.5% rally from the start of 2020 and a whopping 58.3% surge from this year's low of US$78.33/metric tonne it plumbed in early February ...

Asset managers still bearish, but less so

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
Asset managers slightly increased their risk tolerance in the second quarter of the year in a bid to ride the equity rally, but risk aversion still remains high. That's according to new research from institutional specialist consultant bfinance, which ...

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... emerging-market debt opportunity set is formed by a much broader universe of countries." Godfrey said he believes the broad-based rally is not over and the EM market is entering a period of differentiation. "In this environment, how one invests in EMD ...

Gold rally continues to hit new highs

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... hitting a fresh record as real yields have pushed deep into negative territory." However, she argues that gold's latest rally looks "stretched" and that a correction may be due. "Speculation surrounding the prospects of yield curve control may just provide ...

Momentum, quality outperform in 2020: S&P

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... during bullish markets, while value, dividend and low volatility typically underperform, Zeng said. "However, in this recent rally, the S&P/ASX Quality Index underperformed the S&P/ASX 200 by 3.8% while the S&P/ASX Dividend Opportunities Index outperformed ...

Chief economist update: Gold 2000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... before. At the start of the year 2013 -- when gold was fetching around US$1600 an ounce, not a few expected the shiny metal to rally to around US$2000 by year end - US$3000 if they got lucky. But they're little leaguers compared with those predicting ...