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Wall Street tumbles, ASX holds ground

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
Wall Street has been taking a battering since the coronavirus outbreak left the shores of China, with the S&P 500 falling another 12% overnight. A sharp cut in interest rates, stricter quarantine enforcements around the globe and a change of tone from ...

US turns to QE, RBA to follow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... Reserve implemented QE measures overnight and slashed its interest rate. The Fed's QE measures include a US$700 billion bond buying program, as part of its effort to offset the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. The Fed said "the coronavirus outbreak ...

REITs resilient in face of virus: Principal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... yields even more attractive. "A-REITS now yield about 5% - a lot better than the less than one per cent yield of a 10 year bond. And REITs are still seen as a defensive investment in volatile times," she said. "That's attractive to international ...

Alternatives to lead the way: J.P. Morgan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... from localized epidemic to global pandemic saw a striking change in expectations for looser monetary policy, meaning higher bond prices and lower yields." Craig said that while central banks willingness to act may cushion the market blow, lower rates ...

Chief economist update: The cure for Italy's tourism problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... with its ratio clocked at 135% of GDP as at December 2019. That was the time in late-2018 to early-2019 when 10-year Italian bond yields soared to as high as 3.65% - compared with the 0.47% rate on German bonds - as financial markets became concerned ...

Global stocks plunge as COVID-19 fear accelerates, oil crashes

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... prices for the rest of 2020." Meanwhile in the UK, the FTSE 100 suffered its biggest intraday fall since 2008, with benchmark bond yields dropping below zero for the first time. Germany's DAX fell 7.94%, while Italy's bourse fell 11.17%. It comes ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Is this the stock market crash we have to have? The great reboot from the overvaluation in stock market prices prompted by cheap interest rates that punished savers and drove investors to go look where their capital could get higher returns? The global ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... Douglass argued the state of play had changed. "We have now got cash rates in Australia below 1%, we actually have our 10-year bond yields below 1%. US 10-year bonds are at 50 year lows, I think they are actually at historic lows," he said. "Believe ...

UNSW to ditch fossil fuels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has announced it will move away from investment in fossil fuels. The University said it will divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include public equities and corporate bonds of companies ...

Industry fund winds up infrastructure option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... year the fund notified members its income plus option would close on February 5. This was as a result of the ongoing low bond yield market environment impacting the distributable income, with Media Super anticipating the option's scale benefits to ...