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Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
In the words of Frank Sinatra, Australia's now "A-number one, top of the list, head of the heap, king of the hill..." Ol' blue eyes was, of course, singing about the Big Apple (New York) but comparing apples with apples, Australia's on top. ...

Chief economist: What JobKeeper cliff?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." This quote from Danish physicist and Nobel Prize in physics winner Niels Bohr has been proven time after time but more recently in the Australian Federal Treasury's prediction ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
"I see trees of green, red roses too..." - Louis Armstrong It'll be peculiar to even be humming this immortal classic at a time when covid-19 continues to afflict most of the world. But the way it's going for this land down under, it wouldn't ...

Chief economist update: Lower iron ore a boon to the Aussie budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... prices go directly impacts the domestic economy and the budget. In the Budget Papers 2019-20, the Australian Federal Treasury assumed iron ore prices to fall to US$55/tonne this year and the next and at the same time provided a sensitivity analysis that ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... impacts the domestic economy. This is no better underlined by the sensitivity analysis conducted by the Australian Federal Treasury that showed "every $US10 a tonne change in the price results in $A1.4 billion increase or decrease in tax receipts, and ...

The bull and bear market in iron ore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2017
... than 15% of the total." This is no better underlined by the sensitivity analysis conducted by the Australian Federal Treasury noting that, "every $US10 a tonne change in the price results in $A1.4 billion increase or decrease in tax receipts, and $A6 ...

Another 6-9 months under Downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... first half of 2016 will be below trend." Recent estimates by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Federal Treasury put growth in the country's potential output at 2.75%. However, as Westpac's Chief Economist Bill Evans noted, "...the components ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2004
... indicator of activity ahead - was two points weaker at 3598 with 854 contracts traded. On the day the Australian federal treasury releases pre election financial outlook and the chairman of Orica makes a speech in Hobart.
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