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Chief economist update: Iron ore is the glue that binds China and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... these, China's anti-pollution drive has driven steel producers to buy higher quality iron ore exports from Australia and Brazil. Speaking of Brazil, here's where the "favourable supply conditions" come in. It's the second largest exporter ...

Go, iron ore, go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... these, China's anti-pollution drive has driven steel producers to buy higher quality iron ore exports from Australia and Brazil. But it's the mines down under that's reaping most of the benefits - despite Australia's brewing diplomatic ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore is hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... it did in 2020. This, along with the still disrupted supply chains in still highly infected iron ore exporters - namely, Brazil and South Africa - augurs well for iron ore prices going forward. This would be a godsend for Australia, in terms of economic ...

Senior appointments at HLB Mann Judd

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... and experience in the field." Wirtz has 20 years' experience in professional services throughout Australia, South Africa, Brazil, China and Japan. His remit will be the provision of tax consulting services to Australian-based companies, ranging from ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine and Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... the US not doing that bad in terms of deaths per one million population. America ranks numero 10 - one rank better than Brazil and two steps worse than the United Kingdom. Still, the US is up there among the 220 countries worldometer.info tracks daily ...

AustralianSuper backs cobalt miner

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... laterite, copper and scandium projects. It said it will use the $45 million raise to acquire a nickel-cobalt refinery in Brazil, including purchase deposit, lease payments from March 2021 and restart study costs. It will also use the money for Idaho ...

Aussie asset managers fourth-fastest in global growth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... fast growing asset management markets (in local currency terms) are China (25.5% CAGR over five years), India (14.4%), Brazil (12.9%) and Australia (11.9%). Developed countries like the US and UK are growing their asset management markets at a much slower ...

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... However, Eaton Vance said, for several countries, the outlook appears worse. India's GDP forecast is at -4.5%, Russia's -6.6%, Brazil's -9.1%, Mexico's 10.5% and South Africa's is -8.0%. "These countries, which typically grow at a decent rate, often ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
While we, Australians all, remain glued tracking the mounting cases of infection in Victoria - one that has prompted the New South Wales government to close its borders with its neighbour south of the Murray River for the first time since the Spanish ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's secret

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
In Fist of Fury, it is a sign stating "No dogs or Chinese" that draws the ire of the legendary Bruce Lee. But Australians are not seeing Victorians punching, kicking and screaming when the nation's five states and two territories put up the "No ...