By Harrison Polites First SPC Ardmona, and now Toyota. The apparent queue of big industries players requesting a government bailout or pulling out of Australia paints a rather bleak picture for the country’s future economic aspirations. While the focus has been on the ... Read more
Archives for February 2014
A short-term retail stain on the US recovery —Business Spectator
By Callam Pickering At first glance, weak retail sales and sluggish job creation suggest that the US economy has slowed over the past two months. However, unusually cold weather and snowstorms have been major contributing factors to the slowdown. As a result, ... Read more
How generous are Australian work conditions?
By Harrison Polites The government’s submission to Fair Work calling for a review of Australia's national awards scheme has brought Australia’s industrial relations debate to a head. As a result, we’re going to see unions, government and business lobby groups start comparing Australia’s IR laws to ... Read more
View from Clime Asset Management — Is anything happening down here?
By John Abernethy, Chief Investment Officer at Clime Asset Management Wednesday, 5 February 2014 The ramifications of the reduction in the quantitative easing program (QE3) by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) are now playing havoc in currency, equity and bond markets. A particularly negative ... Read more
Emerging Market Volatility Impact — by Roger Bridges, Head of Fixed Income at Tyndall AM
Impact of Recent Emerging Market Turbulence On Global Outlook Please click on the link above. On Friday 24 January, the currencies of Argentina, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, India and Russia all slumped in value following the flash print of the HSBC Chinese manufacturing index, which ... Read more