The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper | | | The slowing rate of infections and deaths suggest the Eurozone has passed the peak of its COVID-19 experience and its now looking to scale back lockdown measures. Even if its hit with a second wave, the damage has already been done. |
| | | | April unemployment data released by Roy Morgan today paints a far gloomier picture of Australia's workforce than the Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest data from March. |
| | | | While we've all been focused on flattening the curve, but the yield curve may just be reclaiming its dominance. |
| | | | It would have been funny had it not been for the circumstances in which we find ourselves. For right on the eve of Labor Day, the US Department of Labor reports that more than 30 million Americans have now applied for unemployment benefits. |
| | | | Under normal circumstances and just looking at the numbers, you would assume that acceleration in consumer prices in the March quarter is the start of something good. But is it? |
| | | | Economic experts are calling on the government to commit to "gargantuan" fiscal stimulus measures, amounting to at least 15-20% of Australia's GDP per year for the next two to three years. |
| | | | There's only so much isolation an ordinary person can take, and latest data shows the impact social restrictions are having on economic activity. But could lifting them make things even worse? |
| | | | In March, the Bank of Japan added another monetary policy term to our vocabulary - Enhancement of Monetary Easing. So what name do they give the enhanced policies announced this month? |
| | | | Victoria remains Australia's strongest performing economy, but it now shares top spot with Tasmania, according to the latest CommSec State of the States report. |
| | | | The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise ombudsman Kate Carnell is concerned that many small businesses may not be applying for the JobKeeper scheme. |
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| | ELIZA BAVIN Early Release of Super payments surged around $7 billion in the first week of July, according to Treasury estimates, but this may not be a reason to panic. | ELIZA BAVIN Funds from IOOF, Vanguard and Fiducian figure among the top-five performers among wholesale funds, in the latest Rainmaker Information tables to May end. | | | ALLY SELBY Pengana Capital's national sales manager for private banking and wealth has left the firm after more than five years, setting his eyes on a new life in sunny Queensland. | KANIKA SOOD In a new paper from Actuaries Institute, Anthony Asher argues financial advice can be made cheaper if the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides some of the data necessary for good advice. |
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