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COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... governments of the world have (and still are) provided backstops to mitigate the painful consequence of frozen economic activity - loss of sales, income, employment, etc. and the societal dislocations that go along them. To do this, most governments ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... For the best part of three years, Brexit was on every Brits mind - dampening business investment and overall economic activity. UK annual GDP growth has slowed sharply from 2.1% pre-Brexit to 1.1% as at the end of the December 2019 quarter. But in his ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... flattening of Australia's coronavirus infection curve (to date) could see consumer, business and overall economic activity return to normal sooner than expected.

Market pain to continue: State Street

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
With volatility still high, economic activity uncertain and investor sentiment low, a collapse in earnings could trigger another fall in risk assets. According to State Street Global Advisors senior investment strategist Raf Choudhury, this uncertainty ...

Millions jobless within weeks: Grattan

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... affected by the response to COVID-19. Ultimately, the institute believes the impact of the crisis on employment and economic activity could be even greater than even it estimates, once the second round economic impacts of the pandemic are incorporated ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... bleed red. "In our view, China is much closer to being back to normal and the PBoC has more ammunition to spur economic activity in the months to come," Taw said. "Peak infection rates from the virus appear to have spiked earlier in China, and global ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... the spread of the virus continues and as the community faces even more restrictions on its ability to generate economic activity," Kirkham said. Kirkham said it is difficult to get a timely read on the effects of the current set of programmes in order ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... growth in 2021 to rebound to 5.8%. However, she indicated that recovery will be only partial as the level of economic activity is projected to remain below the level the IMF had projected for 2021, before the virus hit. "The cumulative loss to global ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... circumstances there is a very different role for economic policy. In normal crises, policymakers try to encourage economic activity by stimulating aggregate demand as quickly as possible. This time, the crisis is to a large extent the consequence of ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... 125 cases on March 31 and a peak of 851 on March 3. But make no mistake the coronavirus will have an impact on economic activity. Already, retail sales declined by 2.3% in the year to February following a 1.8% increase in the previous month. Plunging ...

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Super funds race to implement digital advice

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Australian superannuation funds are increasingly turning to digital advice tools to bridge the longstanding gap between members needs and access to affordable financial guidance, according to executives at wealth technology Bravura Solutions.

Musk's $106bn fundamental-defying IPO lands on Nasdaq

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
SpaceX has raised US$75 billion ($106.8bn) in the biggest-ever stock market debut, valuing Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company at US$1.77 trillion.

Quinbrook appoints Australian lead

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Energy transition infrastructure investor Quinbrook has appointed Tim Horneman as region leader for Australia, formalising his responsibility for the firm's local investment activities and business operations.

Former ASFA COO joins housing fund manager

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The former chief operating officer of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has joined C1 Capital Group as chief investment and operating officer.

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