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Chief economist update: Australian recession - the next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... run is over. "Well, the answer to that is yes. And that is on the basis of the advice that I have from the Treasury Department about where the June quarter is expected to be." Frydenberg's statement comes after the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Fed buys up BlackRock ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... above their levels in January." The US central bank chair Jerome Powell said the Fed took action with the Treasury Department to support the credit needs of large employers through the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility and the Secondary Market ...

Impact investing set to skyrocket: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... avoid harm," O'Connor said. Conducted by the Deakin University Business School and supported by AMP Capital and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the report charts the composition, growth and performance of the impact investment industry ...

Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... banks that do business with the entities (WSJ). Trump promised US would address the issue very strongly while State Department said imposing legislation would be met with strong US condemnation." This puts into question the "phase one" trade deal between ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... of April. "Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services, clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing, and department stores fell heavily in April and there were no offsetting rises in the other industries. Turnover in clothing, footwear and ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Beijing's beef with Canberra persist. Sadly, Australia would hurt more than it would hurt China. Data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) show China accounted for 30.6% of Australia's total exports in fiscal year 2017/18 ...

AFSL pleads guilty to mishandling client money

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... licence conditions imposed by ASIC on the PSAL AFS licence. "We have fully cooperated with ASIC and the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions in their inquiries, and we take full responsibility for these unintentional breaches of our compliance ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... the planet has found itself in these days of the coronavirus pandemic. For right on the eve of "Labor Day", the US Department of Labor reports that more than 30 million Americans - around 18% of working population - applied for unemployment benefits ...

Liquid and ready: Cbus

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... building in the heart of the CBD. The office building, located at 83 Pirie Street, will house the South Australian department of planning, transport and infrastructure. Atkin said the new development would support up to 2000 construction jobs as the ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... be -6.7% this year due to the effects of COVID-19. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and 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 ...