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Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... Hyde Park compared with COVID-19. Ex-BOE governor Mark Carney must be thanking his lucky stars he only had to deal with the GFC and Grexit and Brexit. Andrew Bailey, who succeeded Carney effective 16 March 2020 (three days after the World Health Organisation ...

MySuper bounces back

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... returns are now averaging -4.8%. However, the results pale in comparison to the troubles suffered during the worst of the GFC, when the MySuper 12-month index dropped all the way to -21% in December 2008. Rainmaker said the strong April performance is ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... the sharp drop in the VStoxx (Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility Index) - the eurozone's version of the fear gauge - from a near-GFC high reading of 85.62 points on the 16th of March this year to 38.32 points as at 4th of May. This, in turn, has improved the ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... 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 multi-asset head of investment strategy Matt ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... have an attractive dividend yield, Amir said. She recommends investors look to companies that performed well following the GFC, like software companies, packaging, consumer staples, metals and mining. She argues banks and retailers will likely outperform ...

Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... can be beneficial." Google search trends reveal that Australians have googled the term "recession" more now than during the GFC but are also searching "buy shares" at a significantly higher rate than "sell shares", which Doyle said is interesting. "In ...

Dividends could take years to return: UBS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... UBS forecasts, market earnings per share (EPS) will not return to financial year 2019 levels until FY23. "Notably, after the GFC, it took more than a decade for EPS to recover to their prior highs due to a combination of weak earnings growth and large ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... Burry argued, just as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps did to subprime mortgages prior to the GFC. "Like most bubbles, the longer it goes on, the worse the crash will be," Burry told Bloomberg. "This is very much like the ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... reason for optimism. The VIX index - the fear gauge - has come down from a record high of 82.69 in March (higher than its GFC peak) to around 45.41 (lower than the Grexit peak). This could be in response to the US government's fiscal stimulus - worth ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... government's stimulus measures would help limit the negative flow-on impact on the Australian economy - as they did during the GFC - China's deep contraction (and its trickle-down effect on the rest of the world, mainly Asia), it would not prevent this ...