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Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... investors have been ignoring warnings of economic downfall to push markets higher. "The economy is telling us one thing - GDP and unemployment are at their worst in history - but the market is happy to buy and is heading higher. So I don't know if ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... calling on the government to commit to "gargantuan" fiscal stimulus measures, amounting to at least 15-20% of Australia's GDP per year for the next two to three years. Anything less, they argue, will run the risk of a debt-default deflationary spiral ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... announcement in early April "to carry out an unprecedentedly massive scale of economic package worth ¥108 trillion, or 20 percent of GDP, following the immense damage to the economy from the novel coronavirus". "The package... will total ¥108 trillion ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland. Good call! Latest available information on each country's debt-to-GDP and/or budget-to-GDP ratios shows that they are among the lowest in the globe. Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... part of three years, Brexit was on every Brits mind - dampening business investment and overall economic activity. UK annual GDP growth has slowed sharply from 2.1% pre-Brexit to 1.1% as at the end of the December 2019 quarter. But in his last meeting ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... 45.41 (lower than the Grexit peak). This could be in response to the US government's fiscal stimulus - worth around 11% of GDP to date - and the Fed's liquidity enhancing measures, topped by its open-ended QE programme. Whether or not these measures ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... Politburo to target zero growth in the year 2020. But that's generous compared with the officially reported 6.8% slump in Chinese GDP in the year to the March quarter, not surprisingly due to a near two-month long freezing of all non-essential business ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis." No country will be left unscathed, she said. "The cumulative loss to global GDP over 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic crisis could be around US$9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... convinced it's not enough. So who is right? The IMF predicted that global growth will be -3.3% this year, while Australia's GDP will be significantly worse at -6.7%. Meanwhile, the major financial institutions in Australia have mostly reacted positively ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... also severely disappointed, she 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 ...