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Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
The International Monetary Fund has predicted Australia's GDP will be -6.7% this year due to the effects of COVID-19. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the pandemic has resulted in a collapse ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... Great Lockdown, as one might call it, is projected to shrink global growth dramatically." This is how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently characterised the global economic backdrop that led it to take a chainsaw and lopped off 6.3% from its ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... globally, Lafferty said that many still have not reached those affected by the crisis. "The size of global fiscal and monetary stimulus is overwhelming, but implementation has been mixed," he said. "Given the sharp but temporary nature of the crisis ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... dollar, rebounding by 5.4% from the March 19 low. These, perhaps factored into Bank of Korea's (BOK) decision to keep monetary policy settings unchanged at its 9 April meeting. So does the fact that the Korean central bank announced policy easing ...

Chief economist update: Credit ratings downgrades versus fiscal salvation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... infecting people around the globe - it had only around 780 cases of infection when COVID-19 on the day the BOJ increased monetary largesse. This compares with 142,823 cases in China, 21,157 in Italy, 12,729 in Iran; 8162 in South Korea and even lower ...

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
Ho-hum. Financial markets widely expected the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to keep monetary policy settings unchanged at its April meeting especially so soon after announcing a comprehensive accommodation package the month before ...

COVID-19 spurs greater scrutiny of foreign investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975, regardless of the nature of the investor or size of the investment. The monetary screening thresholds for all foreign investments will be reduced to $0 until the COVID-19 crisis is over, Frydenberg said. "This ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... world of higher interest rates and bond yields at the time," Oliver said. "The selling looks to have been triggered by a monetary tightening in the US but was accelerated as market falls triggered more falls as a result of so-called portfolio insurance ...

Whistleblowers rewarded US $570k

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... All payments are made out of an investor protection fund established by US congress that is financed entirely through monetary sanctions paid to the SEC by securities law violators. Separately, the SEC charged an unregistered penny stock dealer with ...

RBA expands stimulus measures to states

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia has injected around $2 billion into state bonds, as it expands its unconventional monetary policy measures. The move comes as a bid to revive the ability of the states, particularly New South Wales and Victoria, to borrow ...