QIC's Stuart Simmons, Head of Currency, discusses the latest COVID-19 updates, asset market performances and themes, and domestic and global updates, highlighting a difficult week for risk assets and touching on the tensions brewing between US and China.

Beverley Morris, Director of Fixed Income and Absolute Return, provides an update on US data regarding retail sales and industrial production, noting the trends in data are following the trends in the virus. Beverley also provides an update on Australian bonds, noting the movements of the RBA.

Andrew Whittaker, the Senior Portfolio Manager of Fixed Income, elaborates on the pricing of the negative US rates, as the federal fund futures curve started to price in negative interest rate by late 2020. Richard Garland, the Senior Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst of Global Credit, provides a macro credit update highlighting the ETF buy in that started last week.

Stephen Holmes, the Global Credit Income Manager and Senior Research Analyst, talks to GDP growth in China, what their expectations are, and the potential announcements from Premier Li Keqiang. Paul Nicholson, the Director of Global Absolute Return and Income Funds provides an update on the European markets. Listen to find out more on these topics.

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