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Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Nikko AM would look to quality management and different geographic exposures in the sector (US over Australian), he said. Oil and gas is facing unprecedented pressure from both supply and demand sides, Potter said. "The economic slowdown from global ...

Super funds' dirty, poor performing stocks revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... maximising, their exposure to these companies. Woodside Petrolium, Santos, Origin Energy, South32, APA Group, AGL Energy, Oil Search, Aurizon Holdings, Caltex Australia, Worley, Seven Group, Beach Energy, Washington H Soul Pattinson, Mineral Resources ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... Development Goals. To explain its strategy, Peers points to Orstead - a company Mirova has a holding in. Orstead used to be Danish Oil and Natural Gas, an offshore oil producer. The company saw climate change as a threat and used its existing infrastructure ...

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 ...