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Chief economist update: Don't fight the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
Steady all the way... to 2022. As expected, the US Federal Reserve left the fed funds rate target at 0-0.25% at the conclusion of its 9-10 June FOMC meeting, repeated their commitment "to using its full range of tools to support the U.S. economy... ...

Is a market turning point around the corner?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... astounding to see that this US led market cap concentration has surpassed the previous historical highs seen during the dot-com bubble," Mitchell said. "With acceleration in technological disruption and hits to business confidence, it's no surprise that ...

Sustainable dividend stocks offer yield opportunities: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... and eventual momentum reversals leading to larger than average prospective drawdowns," it said. "In addition to the Tech Bubble, breadth narrowed ahead of the recessions in 1990 and 2008 and the economic slowdowns of 2011 and 2016." For investors looking ...

Chief economist update: Powell blamed for fall on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and the steps taken to limit its fallout. This time, high inflation was not a problem. There was no economy-threatening bubble to pop and no unsustainable boom to bust. "While the economic response has been both timely and appropriately large, it may ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... undervalued. The "Buffett Indicator" has a strong track record of predicting market crashes, surging 118% prior to the dot-com bubble in 200, and hitting 100% prior to the GFC. It comes after US GDP slumped by 4.8% in the first quarter of the year. Perpetual ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... extreme weather events battered the world, before COVID-19, The Big Short 's Michael Burry said he had found the next bubble: passive investments. Now, with asset prices trembling in the face of the pandemic, could there still be a darker evil lying ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... he said. "In the 80s countries such as Korea and Japan had the greatest returns, in the 90s it was the US via the tech bubble, and in the 2000s it was China and Emerging Markets such as Brazil. "The 10's were again dominated by the US, as above. ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... a weak U at that." The global market rebound has seen valuations reach levels only surpassed by those seen in the tech bubble, Lafferty argued. "The S&P 500 now sits in no-man's-land, 17% below its all-time high and 25% above the March 23rd low," he ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... coronavirus outbreak is very different from anything we have seen in markets before. "The crash in 1987 was because the bubble popped. The markets were so high, inflation was rising; it wasn't sustainable," Teh said. "The GFC is slightly more similar ...

Jamie Dimon recovering after emergency heart surgery

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... chemotherapy. Dimon has led JPMorgan since the end of 2005, after the bank's merger in 2004 with Bank One. Following the US housing bubble, JPMorgan emerged as the biggest bank in the US, and would later become the world's most valuable bank by market ...