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Clime buys Madison Financial Group

KANIKA SOOD, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... of the sale proceeds, in order to avoid disrupting the sale process, OneVue and the receivers intend to work closely with China-Taiping and its advisers to facilitate the sale," OVH said in June 1 filings. "It is presently envisaged that following completion ...

Chief economist update: What to expect when you're expecting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... wave that would prompt the re-enforcement of isolation and lockdown measures and the brewing tension between the US and China and Australia and China. Would the RBA be forced to respond with a ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) or NIRP (negative interest ...

IRESS advances surprise bid for OneVue

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... morning, OneVue's receipts from all four avenues are under a cloud as fresh claims emerge from Sargon's biggest creditor, China Taiping Trustees. China-Taiping "very recently" asserted a competing security interest in the shares of Madison Financial ...

Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... will still be a shadow cast by the pandemic." Not only that, Australia's simmering trade war and political stoush with China - the country's biggest export market - could throw a spanner in Canberra's recovery works. Beijing has already banned ...

Is the worst yet to come?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... believes are pretty significant. "Australia, to some extent, is caught in the middle of a much bigger story between the US and China," he said. "I think, as the COVID crisis has indicated, things that we think are very low probability can actually happen ...

COVID-19 poses unique human rights threats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... is already playing a role in the surveillance, monitoring and control of people's movements in the coronavirus outbreak. China is using it to track infected individuals and identify those not wearing masks," Zandbergen said. "In Moscow, Russian authorities ...

Hong Kong financial hub status at risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... biggest financial hubs. In response to the Hong Kong protests, Pompeo said Hong Kong is no long autonomous from mainland China and therefore should be treated the same. "Hong Kong does not continue to warrant treatment under United States laws in the ...

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... higher expected returns just as DM bond yields have hit record low levels, and diversification in a world of increasing US-China de-coupling," it said. It also believes that over the near-term Asian ex-Japan equities were likely to outperform, with China ...

Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... with strong US condemnation." This puts into question the "phase one" trade deal between Washington and Beijing. This time, China appears to be in a better bargaining position due to its early success at containing coronavirus infections at the same ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs China more than it needs us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... don't mess with the Politburo. It's only been weeks since Australia called for an inquiry into COVID-19, offending China and sending it into retaliation mode - Beijing banned beef imports from Australia's four biggest "killing fields" on ...