Just before high noon this Thursday, the Treasurer will strap on his budget guns to shoot down the economic devastation caused by the Coronavirus Kid. Will this be enough to corral this viral villain?

Joining Peter Switzer on this week's show: Burman Invest's Julia Lee, Shaw and Partners' Adam Dawes, FNArena's Rudi Filapek-Vandyck and Metrics Credit Partners' Andrew Lockhart.

Wuhan, wash your hands, lockdown go to ground, mask up, shut up, in all states in all lands. We didn’t start the virus but we need to fight it.

Catch up on the latest market and economic news from Australia and around the world.

With over 100 vaccines for COVID-19 currently being trialled, Dr Ross Walker explains what vaccination is and how the latest research into Coronavirus vaccines is progressing.

Yesterday’s job report was a ‘gift’ of sorts to the Treasurer. Now ACTU boss Sally McManus needs to keep being flexible on industrial relations to create and preserve as many jobs as possible. Then we can celebrate.

Although it’s been a difficult year for dividend yield as a strategy, mostly driven by the effects of COVID, there have been bright spots at the stock level.

Should we all be taking statins as a prevention, not only against cardiovascular disease, but also all forms of death? Here’s my view.

In the coming week, a speech by the Reserve Bank Governor and the July Economic & Fiscal Update are the highlights. The other stand-outs are preliminary data on retail trade and international trade in goods