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Chief economist update: COVID-19 takes second crack at China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
Just when we thought that life was slowly returning to normal, reports out of Beijing have turned into reality what many feared - a second wave. While all our uncles and their dogs blamed China for the "bother" the world finds itself in, its policy ...

Global dividends to fall 15%: Janus Henderson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... rather than dividend cuts are likely to bear the brunt of efforts by companies to preserve cash." The research found in China and the rest of Asia, companies have already fixed their 2020 payouts based on 2019 profits, so the impact is likely to be greater ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... infrastructure in finance, industry and other sectors. Digital payments is an area of opportunity, Grana and Culley said, not only in China but also in Africa and the Middle East. While countries struggle to battle the coronavirus, the portfolio managers ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Has the world reached peak isolation? The growing clamour to ease/end social restrictions and lockdowns indicates that "inmates" are growing restless. Humans, after all, are social animals. There's only so much online interaction - Facebook, Whatsapp ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... did not reduce the coronavirus pathogen in bloodstreams, nor did it improve patients' conditions in a clinical trial in China. The biopharmaceutical company disagreed with the report, arguing the trial had been terminated early due to low enrolment ...

COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... health challenges as well as their developed counterparts, Amundi said. "After the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in China and East Asia, and the second wave in Western Europe and North America, a third wave now looks to be building in several EM ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... couple of weeks we saw northbound buying and inflows into China ETF's has picked up." With coronavirus cases slowing in China, investors had recognised the opportunities for alpha as developed markets, like the US, continue to bleed red. "In our ...

BlackRock bullish on China

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... several reasons for global investors to grow their ownership of Chinese bonds," they said. "Macroeconomic fundaments in China are favourable relative to other regions, due in part to the containment of the virus spread, but Chinese bonds also have historically ...

Chief economist update: Credit ratings downgrades versus fiscal salvation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... 780 cases of infection when COVID-19 on the day the BOJ increased monetary largesse. This compares with 142,823 cases in China, 21,157 in Italy, 12,729 in Iran; 8162 in South Korea and even lower than the 1678 reported cases in the US... at the time. ...

Not at the bottom, yet: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... away from the high of 7.7 reached three weeks ago. Investment Trends chief executive Michael Blomfield said the slowdown in China had previously consumer investors' thoughts, but that now their attention has turned to concerns about Australia's level ...