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Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... Markit: "The extent to which the PMI survey has shown business to have collapsed across the eurozone greatly exceeds anything ever seen before in over 20 years of data collection. The ferocity of the slump has also surpassed that thought imaginable by ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... policy measures that have been used during the pandemic. "Many investors consider Bitcoin as a hedge to inflation, so if anything, we've seen an increase in the number of investors that fit that typical profile."

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... outbreak." As BOE policymaker John Vlieghe warns, the UK is in for "an economic contraction that is faster and deeper than anything we have seen in the past century, or possibly several centuries".

Has COVID-19 solved the advice problem?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... weeks, the Shadforth boss said the business has proved that advice can be improved by leaning heavily into technology. "If anything, the service has probably been improved because we've gone into a mode where we're talking to our client base ...

ETF demand boosts gold

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... the gold price is today is nearing all-time highs, and he believes there is a potential for it to break the record. "Anything that covers many, many regions at the same time is really where gold comes into its own," Walesby said. "If there is a more ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... important point here is not to quibble too much about the central case - we all know the economic data will be as bad as anything since the Great Depression," he said. "At the same time markets have acknowledged that the prospect of the most severe downturn ...

Not the time to sell products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... means to me and my health. "And so the first few weeks of this crisis we were very much focused on actually not doing anything with financial markets. If I'm brutally honest, we stopped selling. We stopped selling because we wanted to help financial ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... director of the research department at the IMF, said the pandemic has resulted in a collapse in activity that is unlike anything experienced in this lifetime. "This is a crisis like no other, and there is substantial uncertainty about its impact on people's ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... it's not, and it dramatically changes in the blink of an eye," Geffin said. "All of a sudden you can't sell an asset for anything other than a fire sale price during a liquidity crisis and others selling similar assets to you at fire sale prices cause ...

Sargon Capital to be liquidated

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... the secured creditor, may be able to receive a dividend from Sargon winding up. Unsecured creditors are unlikely to get anything back at the group level. While the extent of claims against Sargon Capital is well known by now (except a claim from Phil ...