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Bullock hushes rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... patient as we work through how all of this could affect demand and supply globally." Bullock said financial market and economic volatility can be expected to continue as the process unfolds, but she said Australia is managing well. "We're not currently ...

US pension funds haemorrhage US$249bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... Group have also dropped between around 18% to 22%. Equable said the declines reflected a widespread concern that the economic value of privately held companies has been "severely affected" by the new trade restrictions. "We have not yet estimated how ...

Trump backflips on tariffs but risks remain

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... average effective tariff rate to around 20%, instead of 30%. "That still represents a significant hit to US inflation and economic activity sufficient to likely cause a US recession in their own right - unless Trump quickly backs down further," he said. ...

NAB forecasts 50bp rate cut in May

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... economy is facing a major challenge. "At the risk of sounding dramatic, we are on the verge of seeing the two largest economic and military superpowers collide at high speed, with Australia caught squarely in the middle," Sycamore said. "If current lines ...

Janus Henderson to take on $75bn fixed income portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... income products, as well as other fixed income capabilities. Additionally, Guardian will receive equity warrants and other economic consideration designed to support a shared goal of accelerating growth and driving value creation. Guardian and Janus ...

Perpetual to build digital wholesale term deposit marketplace

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
Perpetual Corporate Trust will begin operating a digital marketplace offering debt instruments, kicking off with wholesale term deposits. The Corporate Trust business has been granted a market license in Australia enabling it develop a fully electronic ...

Trade war rattles pre-election economic outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... escalating trade hostilities and risks to the economy are "more significant than expected" as it releases its Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO). While the government's Budget figures have not changed since they were announced on March 25 ...

Tariff impact on super 'profoundly worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... back to about 1910. So more than a century ago when the US was so tariffed-and that is effectively a declaration of an economic war. That might sound melodramatic, but that's the way I think others are interpreting it, and so am I," Pearce said. "Why ...

Market turmoil hits portfolios

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... uncertainty, or just beginning," Bassanese said. "For Australia, the net effect... is that it poses much more downside risk to economic growth than upside risk to inflation - hence it adds to the case for an RBA rate cut as early as next month."

Investors brace as US unleashes tariffs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... administration have a surprisingly high tolerance for market pain, now the big question is how much tolerance it has for true economic pain as negotiations unfold," Hetts said. The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) economics team said Australia appears to have ...