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Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... the spread will result in global growth coming in at -3.3% this year and will lead to a downturn worse than the Great Depression. Anthony Doyle, cross-asset specialist at Fidelity, said lockdowns due to COVID-19 have led to an unprecedented collapse ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... major revision over a very short period," she said. "This makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis." No country will be left unscathed, she said. "The cumulative loss to global ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... said, is immensely large even around a central case that is probably the worst the world has confronted since the Great Depression. "I note the Treasurer asserts that the Australian forecasts were put together before the bulk of the government's fiscal ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... said. "This corresponds to the tune from the latest IMF update looking at a dent on global GDP worse than the Great Depression and the US economy GDP projected to sink 5.9%, down 7.9% from the 2.0% forecast printed only in January," Pan said. Despite ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... 2020, a major revision over a very short period. "This makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis." Gopinath said if the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020 and policy ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
"It is very likely that this year the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago. The Great Lockdown, as one might call it, is projected to shrink ...

Extended lockdown could spur worst recession on record: Grattan

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
A six-month lockdown could spur Australia's worst recession since the Second World War, if not the Great Depression, according to the Grattan Institute's Brendan Coates. In an op-ed for The Conversation, the Institute's household finances program director ...

Dow skyrockets in two-day winning streak

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... Average has posted second day of gains, rising 2.4% after witnessing its best one-day percentage gain since the Great Depression on Tuesday. "Turnaround Tuesday" saw the bourse surging 11.4% or 2112.98 points during trading, on hopes of a $3.4 trillion ...

Chief economist update: Water, water everywhere and not a fish to catch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... crisis, Japan's deflation in the early 1990s, the 1987 crash, stagflation in the 70s and, of course, the Great Depression of the 1930s - this too shall pass. It's always darkest before dawn and those with cojones of steel will be richly rewarded ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... tit-for-tat lowering of tariffs around the world and expanded global trade, pulling America and the world out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Trump's war cry of "Making America Great Again" by "beggaring his neighbours" would only end in tears... ...