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Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... message. It expects Eurozone GDP growth to bounce back by 6.0% in 2021, stronger than the 4.8% recovery in advanced economies. The sharp recovery in the IHS Markit Eurozone composite PMI to a level indicating expansion in July (54.9) from the record ...

S&P launches sustainable versions of flagship indices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... decades, we create independent, transparent and trusted ESG indices that enable investors to support more sustainable economies." Draper said the indices will utilise various filters in their eligibility criteria. The indices will exclude companies with ...

Chief economist update: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... inclined to save rather than spend." "That is, the income effect can be larger than the substitution effect. To date, those economies with negative policy rates have not lowered them further. Instead, they have eased monetary policy settings through ...

MSCI launches UN SDG alignment tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... their effect on the environment and society, and report on those efforts, compared to their counterparts in developing economies," MSCI head of ESG research and executive director Olga Emelianova said. MSCI head of ESG Remy Briand, said there is increasing ...

RBA observes weakness and uncertainty

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... global economy had been experiencing an uneven recovery after a very severe contraction in the first half of 2020. "Some economies with high or rising COVID-19 infection rates had recently lost momentum. In contrast, economic growth had been relatively ...

Chief economist update: Prime Minister Suga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... early. New Zealand maintained current restrictions while flagging a lifting of curbs next week". In addition, global economies and financial markets have already rebounded from the deep slump experienced in the first quarter of 2020. Then again, COVID-19 ...

Investors seek to increase EM exposure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... and 29% in North America. Vontobel suggested this may reflect the fact that many APAC investors have seen developing economies in their region, led by China, faring much better than some developed markets.

Chief economist update: The second oil price discounting wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... virtual standstill and factories in lockdown at the time, the planet is drowning in oil. The many of restrictions in many economies around the world, especially in China, in the second quarter of this year, and the OPEC+ cuts in production, sent oil ...

Fees fall after super mergers: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... pre-merger fees against those post-merger, with the average fall coming in at 14%. "Mergers have created efficiencies and economies of scale for the funds, which has led to members being better off," Rainmaker executive director of research Alex Dunnin ...

Chief economist update: Australia succumbs to pandemic-induced recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... and the subsequent recession there in 2001, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 that subsequently put many world economies into a recession. But now it's all over. A teenie-weenie microscopic organism has ended the Australian economy's 29-year ...