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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 ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... impact of the pandemic and the risk of a second wave of infections remain the biggest risk to markets, trade tensions between China and the US, and ultimately, China and Australia, also point to further downside. "Renewed trade tensions between the US ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Forget Australia's simmering political and trade tension with China, there's one building right inside our very borders. Canberra's worried that Beijing's ban on beef imports, increased tariff on barley could extend to boycott of Australia's ...

Global dividends to fall 15%: Janus Henderson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... rather than dividend cuts are likely to bear the brunt of efforts by companies to preserve cash." The research found in China and the rest of Asia, companies have already fixed their 2020 payouts based on 2019 profits, so the impact is likely to be greater ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... devastation wrought by the bushfires, the lockdown forced on society by the coronavirus and, just in, a brewing trade war with China - its biggest trading partner. China has recently banned meat imports from Australia, citing violations of quarantine ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... Sunday's news wasn't. To paraphrase Mr. Murphy, anything that could go wrong went wrong. Here are the headlines: Northeast China hit by coronavirus infections, Wuhan reports new case (Reuters) "BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese authorities reported ...

Trust in big four improves

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... ANZ lifted three points and CBA rose one point. However, Westpac ranked 29 th of the 31 banks, with only AMP and Bank of China lagging behind it. NAB, CBA and ANZ ranked 22 nd, 23 rd and 24 th respectively. The developer of the index, research platform ...