COVID-19

Weak open ahead, Fifth straight month for the ASX, IOOF loads up

It was a mixed day for the market, the ASX 200 (ASX:XJO) finished 0.2% higher despite trading up as much as 0.8% during the day.

The ASX 200 (ASX:XJO) fell 0.7% for the day pushed lower by dividend payouts from Telstra Corporation Ltd (ASX:TLS) and AGL Energy Ltd (ASX:AGL) among others.

A report by media research group the Nielsen Company following Australia-specific data collection shows there has been a significant spike in readership of business and finance news and commentary online.

Protecting your practice Potential COVID-19 for business owners For financial advisory firms, OH&S issues are rarely a priority. The odd paper cut hardly demands regulatory intervention. But COVID-19 could change all that, says John Makris and Dominic Fleeton, Partners at the specialist workplace law firm Kingston Reid. The focus of health and safety regulators has…

What we have learned from the Covid-19 crisis

If any part of the economy is experiencing a sharp, ‘V-shaped’ recovery, it is car use. A number of ASX-listed companies stand to benefit from widespread avoidance of public transport. Macquarie Securities has ‘outperform’ ratings on toll road operators Transurban Group and Atlas Arteria, online automotive classifieds business carsales.com and auto parts and accessories supplier…

Of the many opportunities that were thrown up by the Covid-19 Crash, one of those that is still open – although weakening by the day – is that in the eight credit listed investment trusts (LITs). Most of this group were trading at small premiums to net asset value (NAV) prior to the crash, such…

The scale of the human, social and economic costs wrought by COVID-19 has prompted some politicians to compare it with war. Although this might create some good political spin, which is always attractive to politicians, it is not correct. The differences between COVID-19 and actual war are many and varied. In truth, the only thing…

In hindsight, March 2nd, 2020, as the world started to get to grips with the scale of the global health emergency that was unfolding in the form of the Covid-19 pandemic, was an inauspicious time to launch a new investment product. In fact, the S&P/ASX 200 Index is down 19% since that day – after…