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Bassanese Bites: Head Fake?

Global Markets The key question folks: have we seen the low or was last week a bear market rally? Despite horrible US economic data and an acceleration in their ...
David Bassanese
Betashares
Macro

Chart of the day: accelerating spread of COVID-19 in the US

“If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.” ― Stephen Christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known.US equity markets fell...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

What sort of economy awaits on the other side? Hamish Douglass shares four possibilities

We often hear from policymakers the desire to get to the “other side” of the COVID-19 crisis, but what exactly does that look like? Will we spring back to the...
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Macro

Settle in for a long crisis

In the space of just a few short weeks, governments and central banks globally have thrown absolutely everything at the COVID-crisis. The trillions of dollars of...
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Macro

Analysis: Back to Early-1980s; Landmark RBA MonPol Moment We Missed

By Sophia RodriguesA landmark moment in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s monetary policy went largely unnoticed last month – the use of two instruments to pursue...
Sophia Rodrigues
Sophia Rodrigues
Central Bank Intel
Macro

Chart of the day: China’s manufacturing surprises

Yesterday’s jump in China’s NBS manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was a surprise to many, lifting from 35.7 (its lowest on record) to 52.0. The...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

Chart of the day: Oil over-supply in 2020

“That which cannot go on forever, won’t” - Herbert Stein, American economist, 1916-1999Volatility in equity markets has eased modestly over the past week or so as US...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

The road ahead is ‘U’ shaped

The Australian economy is currently in the ‘stop’ or freefall phase of the ‘U’ depicted in Chart 1 below. Bushfires and the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic are...
Frank Uhlenbruch
Frank Uhlenbruch
Janus Henderson
Macro

Virus strategy must change to protect 90 per cent majority

In over 15 years of writing opinion pieces in newspapers, very few have had such a positive response as this AFR column today proposing that the Prime Minister pivot...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Cash is NOT the King...

Cash is king. This is a common phrase heard particularly in times of market stress, but long term investors will well know that in the long run, cash as an asset class...
Scott Williams
Fiftyone Capital
Macro

Three interesting charts that caught my eye

March 2020 will live long in the memory in investors’ minds. The unprecedented shutdown of developed and emerging market economies to halt the spread of coronavirus...
Anthony Doyle
Anthony Doyle
Firetrail Investments
Macro

Two big issues for markets

When COVID-19 (coronavirus) first made headlines, in China, then worldwide, global market reactions were complacent. It was perceived as a primarily Chinese issue,...
abrdn .
abrdn
Macro

Latest Virus Forecasts: US and Australia Peak in April

Enclosed are the latest forecast and infection/fatality data from our real-time COVID-19 tracking systems. We've also included some new analytics, such as benchmarking...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

A Green Light for Corporate Theft

The substantial weakening of corporate insolvency protections announced by the Federal Government effectively gives companies a green light to steal from their...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Macro

Aussie government QE kicks-off

The Australian government has initiated its part of a coordinated quantitative easing (QE) program that was announced by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Australia's economy faces a long and hard road to recovery

Over the last month, as the coronavirus (COVID-19) began to affect society and investment markets, it became increasingly obvious that government directives would...
John Abernethy
Clime Asset Management
Macro

11-fold increase in US jobless claims

Equity markets are working hard to create a market trough, with US markets overnight rising for the third day to be on pace for their best three-day rally since 1933....
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

Market behavior reflects how little is knowable

During this period of worldwide crisis, frequent and momentous headlines bring our attention to the short, sharp and unusual movements in the price of all securities,...
Jasmin Argyrou
Jasmin Argyrou
Credit Suisse
Macro

Credit spreads widen sharply

“Consensus is not always good; disagreement not always bad. If you do happen to agree, don’t take that agreement—in itself—as proof that you are right. Never stop...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

Looking for a turning point

Governments and society have chosen a rapid slowdown in economic growth to save lives. A health crisis has become an economic crisis. Covid 19 has taken hold in...
Andrew McAuley
Credit Suisse
Macro

What the government's super bombshell means for you

The Federal government dropped a bombshell on the superannuation industry over the weekend with the announcement that members who had lost income due to the COVID-19...
CGF
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Macro

Why is no one talking about Junk Bond spreads?

In our last post on March 4th this year, we discussed a number of important points as to why we had decided to take our fund to 90% cash. An article that with the...
Russell Muldoon
REQON Funds Management
Macro

Eurozone PMIs fall to record lows

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.” Donald TrumpYesterday evening saw the...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

Updated COVID-19 Deaths/Forecasts

Enclosed for your benefit are screen-shots from our proprietary COVID-19 tracking and forecasting systems, which are updated live every 15 minutes. To understand the...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

What could a recovery look like?

What does the world look like in 2022? It’s a guidepost that’s driving Capital Group Vice Chairman Rob Lovelace as markets remain volatile and the world copes with...
Matt Reynolds
Matt Reynolds
Capital Group
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