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Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
COVID-19, despite its obvious health hazards and hysteria-spooked market volatility, can actually be an opportunity for investors, enabling them to purchase the market's darlings at discounted prices. That's according to Paul Taylor, portfolio ...

Chief economist update: The corona crash of 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... monetary - have so far failed to ease household, business and investor concerns. Worst, coronaphobia's now compounded by the oil price war. Certainly, the risk of a global recession has increased significantly. But the world has survived all other ...

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

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... Global markets, already feeling the burn from the spreading COVID-19 virus, have tumbled further, after Saudi Arabia sparked an oil price war which saw oil futures plunge more than 30%. Nearly $140 billion was wiped from the S&P/ASX 200 yesterday, as ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... accounting for more than 11% of the US high-yield market. This, too, has been turned on its head by the latest development in the oil market. Brent crude oil prices slumped by 23.7% to US$34.54 following unexpected news that, instead of agreeing to cut ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... policies of super low interest rates," he said. "But at the same time, they're putting the very institutions that provide the oil for the economies to operate and lend to businesses, they're putting them under pressure; where they can earn less." ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... discretionary sector (Treasury Wine Estates in particular), the materials sector (BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group), and oil (Woodside Petroleum) as being shorting opportunities. In comparison, Conway has been recommending small-cap buying opportunities ...

Asia is way forward for global economy: DWS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... interest rate based. It's the same story in South Africa. Turkey is very politically run and Russia is quite dependent on the oil price and global risk, whereas the Asian story is really about a pick-up in growth. " Taylor said that while the focus in ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus infects oil market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... appears that no one and nothing is immune from the spread of the coronavirus. It's now turned the bull market in crude oil into a bear. Crude oil prices sank by more than 10% (the technical definition of a bear market) - WTI oil down 15.6%; Brent ...

Aussie share funds boast stellar 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... UK. Seck said the broad cohort of fund managers were aided by a rally in previously out-of-favour industries. These include oil producers such as Santos and Beach Energy, as well as building materials company BlueScope Steel. He exemplifies growth funds ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... overnight after Trump stated that Iran was "standing down", indicating there would be no armed retaliation from the US. Demand for oil, bonds and gold has lifted as investors turn towards commodities and "safer" investments to hedge their wealth against ...