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Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... the industry and the ancillary sectors that service the industry. China's trade ban/boycott could expand to other commodity and services - education and tourism - exports should Beijing's beef with Canberra persist. Sadly, Australia would hurt ...

Chief economist update: Will emerging markets be first to emerge?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... face a health crisis, severe external demand shock, dramatic tightening in global financial conditions, and a plunge in commodity prices, which will have a severe impact on economic activity in commodity exporters. Overall, the group of emerging market ...

Fortescue seeks to hide pricing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... markets by speaking to a range of industry sources," Binks said. "Independent, objective market reporting which creates commodity price transparency is an essential service and very much in the public interest." An interim hearing in the UK is set for ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... to higher debt levels (like banks), higher operational costs (like airlines) or businesses that are leveraged to the commodity cycle (like miners). When business is good, these products provide investors with much higher returns as well as a source of ...

No golden ticket for super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... allocations to real assets, commodities and hedge funds. "Some Australian equity strategies may serve as a proxy for commodity investments, including gold, given the importance of mining to the Australian economy," Williams said. "Funds with less scale ...

Best, worst global equities funds in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... have been willing to pay up for, what they deem to be, quality. These preferences have allowed them to largely avoid commodity-related companies, financials, and property. Similarly, BetaShares' ESG filters remove fossil fuel-related companies and ...

Multi-asset strategies key in COVID-19 crisis: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... acts more like equities," he said. "It also has large sector allocation to energy, but we already get that through our commodity allocation. "We always need to make sure we aren't adding more correlation to our portfolio and taking away some of the resilience ...

COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... (such as China) and with strong domestic bases," Amundi said. "On the other hand, we are very defensive on export-, commodity- and tourism-related stories. "We believe that COVID-19 will favour countries that are close to autonomous regarding internal ...

The domino effect: Oil falls, markets follow

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... face bigger challenges on the demand side of their businesses," Craig said. "Low oil prices will also put pressure on commodity-exporting emerging markets, such as Russia, the Middle East and Latin America. However, this benefits importers in Asia, especially ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... livelihoods," Gopinath said. "Many countries now face multiple crises-a health crisis, a financial crisis, and a collapse in commodity prices, which interact in complex ways." Gopinath said policymakers are providing unprecedented support to households ...