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GDP figures reveal start of COVID-19 impact

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... impacted most severely, such as air transport services, hotels, cafes and restaurants, recreation and culture. Spending on goods rose, most notably in food and pharmaceuticals, as households prepared for the introduction of restrictions. The ABS said ...

Financial stress increases despite relaxed conditions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... The survey reports that around 24% of respondents are feeling financially stressed when it comes to paying for essential goods and services, and increase of about three percentage points from when the nation's temperature was taken just a week earlier. ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Overall, and in Australian dollar terms, Australia received more than it spent on trade with China - earning A$123.3 billion in goods and services exports to China (as at FY2017/18 based on DFAT numbers) and spending only A$71.3 billion on imports from ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... the 8.1% jump recorded in June 2000, as consumers brought forward purchases ahead of the 1 July 2000 introduction of the goods and services tax (GST). This initial estimate is subject to revision and the final one will be published on 6 May 2020. But ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... in activity, but where is the output going?" He said. "Factories running at 80-90% of capacity have places to ship their goods while the developed world is still in lockdown. An inventory-build hangover is likely on the horizon." Although stimulus measures ...

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... deterioration in the labour market going forward. Similarly, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) "International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia, Feb 2020" report underscores the trade effect of the coronavirus. Australia's trade ...

Times of turmoil create opportunities: deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... likely winner, as well as pharmaceutical and healthcare firms, delivery brands, supermarkets and manufacturers of electronic goods. Green said the world would "of course" recover from the economic impact of the virus, and that professional investors ...

Afterpay coughs up $1.5m over US loans

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... been operating a consumer credit sale product in the state of California, providing services that enable merchant to sell goods to their consumers that can be repaid over time," it said in a statement. "Afterpay rejects the view that the company operated ...

Former Toys "R" Us executives face fraud charges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... "R" Us as it tumbled into bankruptcy and then misrepresented TRU's financial situation to induce toymakers to provide goods on credit. Some toymakers lost almost everything." Private-equity firms KKR, Bain Capital and Vornado Realty Trust acquired ...

Chief economist update: A crisis of supply, demand and confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... Australia. This followed news of emptied toilet paper shelves at supermarkets that has now extended to "necessities" - canned goods, frozen dinners, pasta, rice, sugar, etc. - families are hoarding to survive three to six months of the apocalypse. I ...