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Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... begun, with 161 popular Australian bricks-and-mortar stores already earmarked for closure just one fortnight into the new year." As revealed in their response to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey, Australians are correct ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... at the time as well as our best estimates about the pace of return to work following the end of the extended Chinese New Year holiday on February 10," Apple said. "We do not expect to meet the revenue guidance we provided for the March quarter." Apple ...

Chief economist update:China prepares anti-viral injection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... than 1 trillion yuan ($217 billion) in losses to the restaurant, tourism and movie industries in seven days of the Lunar New Year holiday, economists estimated. "In the best-case scenario, which assumes the epidemic can be quickly contained and brought ...

Former CFS GAM head in new venture

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... unprecedented fires and the months of deadly smoke and particulate matter hanging in our air have left an indelible mark on every new year's resolution, every plan and every conversation," the update said. "Research from 12 years ago warning of exactly ...

AMP adds competitors to platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... range of technology and administrative upgrades." Bourguignon hinted that the expanded insurance offerings are part of a new year resolution for the Australian wealth giant's platform business. "With more external financial advisers and their clients ...

Chief economist update: Happy New Year rat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
"Gong xi fa cai"! China celebrates its lunar new year on January 25 this year, bidding farewell to the "pig" and welcoming the 'Year of the Rat'. Beijing has every reason to be optimistic. Derogatory as it may seem to be called "a rat", this ...

Chief economist update: The rise and fall of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
Crude oil prices rose in the early months of the New Year on the escalation of tensions between the US and Iran after an American drone strike in Iraq on January 3 that killed Qassem Soleimani -- the head of Iran's elite Quds military force. The ...

China's growth to slow: PIMCO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... a slowdown in China's GDP growth in 2020 as tensions between the Asian nation and the United States continue into the New Year. The company's global economic advisor, Joachim Fels, and chief investment officer global fixed income, Andrew Balls, believe ...

Acadian taps CFS executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
Acadian Asset Management has started off the New Year by boosting its local leadership team with the addition of a Colonial First State executive manager. Former CFS executive manager of deposits and investment products Mark Mukundan has joined the ...

Chief economist update: Australia burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
What could have been a good start to the New Year for financial markets - the US and China are set to sign the "phase one" trade deal agreement on January 15 and Brexit has become less uncertain - marred by renewed war (the real war) tensions between ...