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Investment thesis: International news is still mostly bad. The latest EU PMI data shows a service sector crash. Data from Japan also shows weakness, as do the latest South Korean releases. On the plus side, China was modestly higher this week but it's still too early to think about taking a ...

The new measures include A$66.4B Australian dollars ($38.5B) worth of support for households, businesses and workers. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund, Global news and forex, News on ETFs, Rea...

Joining a rush by global central banks to pump cash into the economy, Australia cut rates for the second time in a month (to an all-time low of 0.25%) and made a historic foray into quantitative easing . More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Tr...

Australian dollar weakened more than 2% intra-day to a decade low of AUD 0.614/USD. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund, Global news and forex, News on ETFs Read more ...

Last week, international markets rebounded after the previous week's coronavirus selloff. Asia and emerging markets were the big winners. Going forward, expect these markets to continue cautiously firming due to the following fundamental developments: supportive central banks, firming manufact...

Killing 25 people and leaving thousands homeless, Australia's huge bushfires have already burned through more than 25.5M acres of land and the economic costs are adding up. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equi...

By Robert Carnell, Chief Economist Head of Research, Asia-Pacific , Francesco Pesole, FX Strategist and Petr Krpata, Chief EMEA FX and IR Strategist Speculation that the Reserve Bank of Australia may embark on quantitative easing is growing, although we see no crisis to war...

By Robert Carnell , Chief Economist Head of Research, Asia-Pacific Despite the many arguments for not easing, the RBA has cut rates again by 25bp, taking the official policy rate down to 0.75%. A cut in line with consensus Although this cut was in line with the consensus view, there...

In general, Asia is holding up fairly well. The major economies are still expanding, unemployment is low, and consumers are still increasing their rate of consumption. But the trade war is clearly hurting as PMIs are either below 50 or just barely above that level. Industrial production is...

By Erik Norland The Reserve Bank of Australia ((RBA)) and the Australian national government have much to be proud of. For the past 28 years, they have presided over one of the longest continuous economic expansions in recorded history (Figure 1). No developed economy has matched this trac...