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No such thing as a free lunch: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... able to finance itself in the bond market, and it can do so on very favourable terms. There is strong demand for government debt and the Australian government can borrow for five years at just 0.4% and for 10 years at just 0.9%. These are the lowest ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... estate. "Traditionally fixed income is seen as a defensive anchor and this was tested by the crisis with even US government debt caught up in a broad sell off as investors rushed into cash. However government interventions including rate cuts and global ...

Super not sacred: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... ongoing preferential tax treatment, which he expects will be resolved early "against the background of our large government debt". "Will the newly impoverished working population want to divert more into superannuation contributions, or would they prefer ...

Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... "Overall, the economic data has been sobering." Frydenberg said that while there will be a significant increase in government debt, the stimulus measures were designed to protect the "structural integrity" of the budget. "Australians know there is no ...

Listed infrastructure mispriced: FSI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... confident GLI will recover from the impacts of COVID-19. "The post-COVID-19 world will see personal, corporate and government debt burdens significantly higher than before the crisis, GDP recovery will be weak and interest rates will stay low due to ...

Australia's AAA rating at risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... the next two years, but is expected to ease due to the overall strength of Australia's financial structure. "Net government debt and relative interest cost nevertheless are likely to remain at elevated levels for a number of years," S&P said. Australia ...

Chief economist update: Credit ratings downgrades versus fiscal salvation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... the manufacturing sector's 10-month contraction deepened further to 44.8. Ergo, despite having the highest government debt-to-GDP ratio (238% as at 2018) in the world, the government has been pushed into spending and borrowing some more - it announced ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... the downdraft of the global lockdowns would erode fiscal balances, sending government deficit to GDP ratios and government debt to GDP ratios soaring. Cash is king. Sure, sure. Zero return on cash (or even small negative) is relatively better than the ...

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... target. As a result, the tax increase produced the opposite of the government's desired outcome. The Japanese government debt to GDP ratio went from 91.2% in 1996 to 110.5% in 1998 and continued to rise to 232.5% in 2013 before the next increase ...

Coronavirus to infect Q2: Capital Group

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... an estimate of somewhere around 10-15% of GDP deficit." That's quite the difference from official figures. Government debt was also causing Beijing's balance sheet to flash red, Green said. "We believe that government debt is probably near 100% ...