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Tempered positivity post-pandemic: Experts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... mobile wallets, debit cards and changing the way they are paying for things," he added. Singh said governments around the world ended up have remarkably similar policy responses to the pandemic - supporting lockdowns as a health response and pouring ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... Ruthven showed the audience a chart demonstrating the growth of global GDP every two years since 1940. It showed that World War Two, the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 were the only worldwide recessions in that period. Ruthven said it was government ...

James Murdoch launches SPAC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... identify opportunities, catalyse change, and accelerate growth in some of the largest technology and data markets in the world."

Chief economist update: Did the BOE just announce taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... additional accumulated savings." How much stronger? The bank now expects GDP growth of 7.25% - the fastest rate since World War II - this year from the February 2021 estimate of 5.0%. Likewise, the BOE now forecasts the unemployment rate to peak at 5.5% ...

Super funds need to get on board with crypto: Carnegie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... particularly comfortable place to be," he said. "But it's been made easy by the fact that central banks all around the world have just been printing so much money and borrowing so much. Yes, people can argue that there are problems with Bitcoin but ...

MySuper fees could halve in 10 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... public pressure. "Explaining why this pressure has gained traction is that if the comparison shifts to focusing on developed world countries with which Australia probably counts as its peers, Australia's median superannuation fees in reality look ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... Committee - as required under the March 2020 COVID-19 relief law - singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. In his testimony, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell declared that: "Today the situation is much improved. While ...

Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... March 2021 'Interim Economic Outlook' report pencilled in a 7.8% expansion this year. In January this year, the World Bank (WB) forecast China's GDP to grow by 7.9% in 2021 predicated on "the release of pent-up demand and a quicker-than-expected ...

Chief economist update: Getting hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... of coronavirus infections and vaccine optimism that have allowed the resumption of business activity in many parts of the world. The latest tailwind driving the oil market is the unexpected decision by the OPEC+ oil producers to extend its oil production ...

Chief economist update: The great Australian rebound

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
"Getting strong now, won't be long now, getting strong now Gonna fly now, flying high now, gonna fly, fly, fly..." -Bill Conti, Gonna Fly Now As sure as this theme from the 1977 classic Rocky is remembered by film buffs and boxing aficionados everywhere ...