ECONOMICS & MARKETS After the Bell: daily market update, July 7 07 Jul, 2020 Not a great day on the ASX, Victorian premier Dan Andrews has announced a new lockdown, and the central bank also met today. Our senior economist, Diana Mousina, talks us through the last 24 hours. Important information While every care has been taken in the preparation of this video, AMP Capital Investors Limited (ABN 59 001 777 591, AFSL 232497) and …
Should you give your teenager a credit card? We live in a culture of smartphones, WIFI, home delivery, online shopping and online gaming, where most needs and wants can be met almost instantly. With so much temptation to spend, it’s vital to teach your kids the money skills to help them enjoy financial wellbeing as adults. One of these key skills is learning how to deal with debt responsibly. Researchers from Cambridge1 University found …
What Australia’s recession will look and feel like A great proportion of the working population have never known a recession in Australia, and others will be haunted by the last in the early 1990s. This time around, I think Australia is in for a different experience to what we’ve seen and known before – and that’s not entirely a bad thing. The Australian government has, rightly, sacrificed economic activity in the name of health in …
Three important things for investment markets in the COVID-19 crisis It’s important to realise there is a great deal of controlled action coming from governments and central banks at the moment, though markets and sentiment feels distinctly out of control. This goes a long way in reminding investors and markets that the COVID-19 financial crisis is an event which we have the capacity to manage our way out of. Panic and investor pessimism is just …
4 Lies Money Wasters Tell Themselves Standing on the shop and wanting to spend a fortune on the tons of merchandise that are around you, this is a normal happening for most of us that have shopping urges, yet deep down we do know the consequences of spending a fortune and so we tend to hold back for a while. Right at that moment a voice pops in the head and tells us exactly what …
