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Chief economist update: The next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... agreed to agree. Recall the fiscal funding disputes between "austere" countries, led by Germany, and the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain) during the European sovereign debt crisis seven years before....it's the emerging fiscal union of the European ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
While we, Australians all, remain glued tracking the mounting cases of infection in Victoria - one that has prompted the New South Wales government to close its borders with its neighbour south of the Murray River for the first time since the Spanish ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's secret

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
In Fist of Fury, it is a sign stating "No dogs or Chinese" that draws the ire of the legendary Bruce Lee. But Australians are not seeing Victorians punching, kicking and screaming when the nation's five states and two territories put up the "No ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... S&P plunged 37% and the MSCI posted a loss of 40.33%. Australian financial professionals, as well as those in Hong Kong, Italy and Germany, are notably pessimistic about stock performance in their own market, projecting double digit losses for the year. ...

Chief economist update: Australian recession - the next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... March 2020 quarter is top of the pops compared with the US (-1.3%), the Eurozone (-3.8%), Germany (-2.2%), France (-5.3%), Italy (-5.3), Japan (-0.9%), the UK (-2.0) and China (-9.8%). This justifies the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) positive ...

Mayfair 101 reveals new sub-division, hires chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... ahead with its plans to develop a tourism attraction at Dunk Island and a luxury hotel and apartment building in Venice, Italy despite COVID-19 throttling the tourism industry. Despite action from ASIC limiting its promotion of some products and a global ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... lockdown and social distancing restrictions, among them the single currency region's biggest economies - Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This relative optimism is reflected in the sharp drop in the VStoxx (Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility Index) - the ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... flattened their respective curves and are now gradually relaxing restrictions. Among them: Australia, New Zealand, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, Iran and Saudi Arabia. China, of course, ended its lockdown weeks earlier (7 April). While unlocking ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... 3.8% in the March quarter. Annualised, this translates to a 14.4% drop in national (or euro-wide) output with France and Italy now in a technical recession and Germany predicting GDP growth to plummet by 6.3% this year. For sure and for certain, the ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... we have preferences for Canadian, Swiss and Indian equities, while we have a view to be underweight to countries such as Italy, Spain and the US," Somaia said. "These views are driven by our research in to factors such as valuation and momentum which ...