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US turns to QE, RBA to follow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... "Australia's financial system is resilient and it is well placed to deal with the effects of the coronavirus. At the same time, trading liquidity has deteriorated in some markets." The move to begin QE measures is in direct response to the impact ...

Panic selling to do more damage: Ord Minnett

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... "The spreads on hybrids have blown out more than 330bps since their recent tights February 21, with the average gross trading margin sitting at 6.0% (2.65% in February)." Some of the recent market moves are part of a repricing event, not a distress event ...

REITs resilient in face of virus: Principal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... retail shopping centres across Australia as coronavirus fears have risen," Yoong said. "China is Australia's biggest trading partner and we're already seeing an impact from the coronavirus on education and tourism. But there's also a long-term ...

Alternatives to lead the way: J.P. Morgan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... roles alternatives play in a current portfolio; diversification and income," Khazzam said. "10-year Treasury bonds are trading in some cases below 0.5%, and the rest of the world has zero or negative rates. There is going to be even more of a need to ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... from -1 in the previous month, its lowest level since July 2013. Business conditions declined to 0 from +2 due to weaker trading conditions and profitability....and this was before the coronavirus turned into a worldwide coronaphobia. The extent of coronaphobia ...

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

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... which is helping drive buying sentiment locally. At the time of writing, the S&P/ASX 200 regained some of these losses, trading down 0.61%. Overnight in the US, the New York Stock Exchange triggered a temporary trading halt after stocks plunged 7% at ...

Billionaire investor warns against buying the dip

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... said. "We still have no way of predicting the ultimate impact of this virus." He argued that quantitative, programmatic trading has exacerbated the market's volatile moves. "For investors, events such as the coronavirus make for very stressful times. ...

Clime launches new SMA portfolios

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... Australian market," Clime chief operating officer Sarah Bolouri said. "That generation has grown up with technology and share trading platforms and so forth. Obviously, the cost of advice is limiting depending on the amount of wealth they want to actually ...

Desktop Broker hires senior sales exec

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... platform grow exponentially," Bell Direct chief executive Arnie Selvarajah said. "Many advisers just need a simple online trading platform to transact for clients in a seamless and cost-effective manner, and Desktop Broker offers this."

Chief economist update: Coronavirus causes equity market correction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... it's working. The CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - jumped to a reading of 40.1 at the close of last Friday's trading - the highest since 2011. Most global equity markets are now in correction, and rightfully so. The disruption that has been ...