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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 ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... target rate back to zero) to a US$700 billion QE and ultimately expanded into an open-ended one. With both fiscal and monetary policy working towards a common a goal -- restoring consumer, business and investor confidence - perhaps, this time, the optimism ...

Chief economist update: The cheaper alternative

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... According to the same website, Australia has 2144 cases, eight deaths and 118 recoveries. Just like the UK, fiscal and monetary authorities here (and elsewhere) are trying to mitigate the fallout on the functioning of the general economic activity. Just ...

Recovery expected in 2021: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... health systems and protect affected workers and firms," she said. "We welcome the moves of major central banks to ease monetary policy. These bold efforts are not only in the interest of each country, but of the global economy as a whole. Even more will ...

Chief economist update: Lock us down Scotty!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... disappear, consumed by a tiny speck of micro-organism. Remember Murphy's Law? "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Monetary and Keynesian stimulus measures, and governments nationalising banks and other financial institutions got the world ...

Chief economist update: What happens in China...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... isolation. But I digress. Just as the rate of infections from the coronavirus grow exponentially by the day, fiscal and monetary authorities in an increasing number of countries around the world increase their spending - and tighten physical interaction ...