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Value investing a likely winner: Maple-Brown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
... this kind of approach is fraught with danger." Investigating common assertions that Insync believes stir up worry and pessimism, the fund manager refuted that carbon energy prices will keep rising and that elevated supply chain costs will be protracted. ...

Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming: ASI

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
... empire and so the logical place for Putin to start rebuilding the Russian empire. "Optimism has now been replaced by pessimism." According to Suter, a direct impact of the invasion was the disruption of grain and sunflower oil (Russia and Ukraine product ...

Australia ranked seventh for retirement wellbeing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... they were worried retirement would not be an option and 31% agreed they would never have enough money to retire. This pessimism comes despite Australian investors being less likely to withdraw from their retirement savings than those in other countries ...

Economic recap: Week to August 13

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
... conditions findings, unemployment expectations jumped sharply (13.7% to 124.6). The longer the lockdown, the longer the pessimism among Australian consumers. This, in turn, will have a self-feeding impact on consumer spending, business confidence and ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine and Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... speculations on Fed policy decisions BC (before COVID) - but it appears that the dying days of 2020 swing between optimism and pessimism depending on which side of the bed financial market participants get up on on the day. Get up on the wrong side and ...

Chief economist update: Australian pessimism eases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... points recorded five months before in March. Good but not good enough. This is because the latest score indicates that pessimism still rules and as the survey notes: "Confidence is negative in all industries despite improvements outside of mining and ...

Chief economist update: The wages of COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... extension, should avert a deeper recession. However, more "real" dollars to spend is negated by the renewed consumer pessimism. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment fell 9.5% to 79.5 in August from 87.9 in July-- close to the 75.6 ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
Financial professionals in the United States are optimistic about a market recovery, while pessimism is highest in the Asian region where professionals are forecasting double-digit losses, according to Natixis. In its most recent Natixis Investment ...

Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... confidence, the main unknown being COVID-19 itself," he said. "For this reason, there will be bounces in optimism and pessimism in the coming months, on both the macroeconomic and market front." While a collapsing oil price may be seen as an indicator ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... abnormal given the sharp fall in consumer confidence to a nine-year low in March. Then again these are abnormal times. Pessimism over disruptions in production and therefore, reduced supply - of toilet papers, grogs, pasta, rice, etc. - prompted panic-buying ...