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Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... rise in stock prices by expecting businesses to go on a cost-cutting spree to defend their profit margins. Lower interest rates would also help. However, corporate austerity, in itself, dictates reduced staffing. This would only add to the more than ...

ASIC delivers thinly veiled warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... regulator said. "Some are also backed by concentrated portfolios of higher risk unlisted and illiquid assets." Low interest rates and market volatility may be driving consumers to seek such alternatives, ASIC fears. The regulator made no specific mention ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... over 2020, increase its strategic asset allocation to infrastructure and other assets it saw benefiting from lower interest rates. It had made the first part of that change when COVID-19 arrived. It entered the downturn 6% underweight unlisted assets ...

Pinnacle boutique launches Cayman fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... macro trading strategy is the best way to exploit opportunities across Asia. "Divergent central bank policies on interest rates and foreign exchange, equity market dispersion, and temporary dislocations caused by the dominance of retail flows are combining ...

Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... world economy in recession, it will actually be a positive for businesses as they begin to recover, he argued. "Interest rates will also assist recovery and will stay lower for longer, possibly for years to come," Xiradis said. He recommends investors ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... strong labor market, and inflation near our symmetric 2% objective." In other words... the Fed is done cutting interest rates. This optimism is consistent with the December 2019 dot plot of FOMC participants' assessment of appropriate monetary policy ...

Aussie funds bleed $4bn in March

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... portfolios in March, with the ASX 200 bouncing around in a range of 25-30% below its February peak and long term interest rates at historical lows, the impact for the funds management sector has been more acute as investor redemptions compound the effects ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... delivery of the arts. They also urged the government to consider long-term "war bonds" or "COVID bonds" at low interest rates, similar to what the government issued during WWII. "The bonds would allow visibility into the extent to which the Commonwealth ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... -provide a favorable backdrop. Developed market central bank actions should pave the way for lower volatility in interest rates, providing a stable environment for credit spreads to narrow," Boivin said in the note. "The risk of temporary liquidity crunches ...

Credit value exists in emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... sovereign bond issuance increase in EM during 2020. "We've already seen EM central banks move to reduce benchmark interest rates and boost liquidity, and most EM countries are planning large relief programs to ease the shock on their local economies," ...