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Wall Street surges as Sanders drops out, Wuhan reopens

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... their cyclical peers and some fear that while the fiscal stimulus is large, it's too late." Although the MSCI World Index has recovered 41% of its bear market decline, Sherwood said Australia's market was still struggling to recover. "Australia ...

Wall Street rally runs out of steam

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... 900-points before closing down 0.12%. Similarly, the S&P 500 lost 0.16% and the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.33%. The volatility index is now trading up 3.23% at 46.7 points. The falls come despite New York recording its third day straight of coronavirus ...

1.5 metres to trigger real estate downfall

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... trying to negotiate rent relief with landlords." The Aussie market's weighting to retail has seen the S&P/ASX 300 AREIT index suffer blows of 34.3%, she said, with every sector of the real estate industry experiencing a downturn. "The office market ...

FPA launches benchmarking tool

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has today launched an online index set to allow financial planners to benchmark the success of their business relative to their peers. In partnership with global market research consultant CoreData, the ...

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... stats and surveys at the same time that the RBA Board met show the extent of the challenges Australia face. The ANZ job ads index dropped by 10.3% in the month of March (following a 1.2% gain in Feb) - the fastest rate of decline since January 2009 that ...

NFP super fund performance revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... currently sitting on an average rolling 12-month return of -3%. For context, the average rolling 12-month return for the MySuper index during the Global Financial Crisis got as low as -20%," he said. "The YTD MySuper index return to March end is -6%." ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... five points - the largest on record - to -11.6 in March from -6.6 in the previous month. The IHS/Markit Eurozone composite index dove to an all-time low of 29.7 in March from 51.4 in February, paced by the near halving of the services PMI to 26.4 (from ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... were already sliding since the start of the year but it was on this day that markets had their first big fall - the S&P 500 index dropped by 7.6% on that day; the Stoxx 600 index plunged by 7.1%; the Nikkei-225 index went down by 5.1% and the Shanghai ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... auction clearance rates, he said, with the preliminary rate falling to 61.3% as of March 22. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of House Price Expectations fell to 6.6% in March, the largest monthly decline since February 2019, Peleg said. Peleg believes ...

Multi-asset results mixed in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... outcomes," Morningstar said. "FirstChoice WS Moderate for instance held identical cash levels as the Morningstar balanced index yet returned negative 17.45% for the period." Unsurprisingly, growth funds performed relatively worse on average to balanced ...