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Chief economist update: The corona crash of 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Bros. News that Tom Hanks and wife Rita tested positive for the coronavirus and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and wife Sophie are in self-isolation - aside from earlier reports of that ministers (health ministers) ...

ScoMo launches $17b stimulus package

ALLY SELBY, ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... payments. The government said the payments will begin at the end of March and over 90% are expected to be made by mid-April. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government's stimulus package will ensure Australia is well placed to combat the health ...

Stopping SG is nuclear response to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... pausing SG, Australians may actually lose out on investment gains that could be made as the economy bounces back. "As the Prime Minister said today, the global economy will bounce back on the other side of this health shock," Fahy said. "Pausing SG contributions ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... very much upon us and as a result, as a government, we need to take the steps necessary to prepare for such a pandemic," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. The Federal Government this morning announced a $17 billion stimulus package focused on wage ...

Global stocks plunge as COVID-19 fear accelerates, oil crashes

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... be able to withstand another drop, particularly given that markets typically fall 30-40% during recessions." It comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison told a crowd of business leaders at the AFR's Business Summit the economic impact of the coronavirus ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... concern. "We have to ask ourselves where the asset bubbles are forming and are they large enough to be systemic like the sub-prime debt crisis was in the United States," he said. Douglass said current high-yielding credit products were unsustainable. ...

J.P. Morgan offloads Melbourne properties

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... the building and the precinct, it is very difficult for them to leave." Rathgeber said there was a shortage of existing prime office assets in Melbourne and the cap rate on any deal could hit 5%. Twenty8 Freshwater Place is a mixed-use development on ...

SuperConcepts names new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
AMP's SuperConcepts has named a new chair, hiring from McPherson Super Consulting. Stuart Forsyth will take on the position, leaving his consultant role at McPherson Super Consulting. Prior to that, Forsyth was a non-executive director at SuperIQ and ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street sneezes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... preparing, fiscal responses. Except for Hawaii boy Scott Morrison. This from Factset: "Australia remains the holdout with Prime Minister Morrison again ruling out a fiscal response to the expected impact on growth from the virus".

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... from COVID-19 adds to the downward pressure on the domestic economy caused by the bushfires, storms and floods, testing Prime Minister Scott Morrison's declaration: "The surplus is of no focus for me whatsoever. What matters to me is the human cost ...