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Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... the same in September of the same year. But this time maybe different. Stronger household consumption and consumer confidence would certainly make it easier for businesses to raise prices for their products and services. Add to these, the Fed's Beige ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... pensions) because most are indexed to inflation. This doesn't augur well for household income and by extension, consumer confidence and spending. Worse, it could lead to even lower inflation expectations further exacerbating the slowdown in spending. ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... job-seekers that they'll be successful in finding jobs - one that's consistent with the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer confidence survey showing the unemployment expectations index falling from 130.8 in November to 127.6 in December and 122.8 in ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... with the slowdown in retail sales growth between the second and third quarters of last year and also weakened consumer confidence. The lead from the rebound in consumer confidence in the fourth quarter of 2017 and early into the New Year provides solid ...

Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... the official cash rate was at 6.5%... and rising. That's because us, Australians all, were feeling the love: consumer confidence was at 120.8 in July 2007 compared with 101.4 in October 2017; retail spending was growing at annual rate of 7.7% compared ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... given latest stats they're feeling like one too. While the preliminary estimate of the University of Michigan consumer confidence index slowed to a reading of 97.8 in November, this was from the 13-year high print of 100.7 in October's final estimate. ...

Where in the cycle is Australia?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... discrepancy of the surveys, but despite record high business conditions and still above-average business confidence, consumer confidence retreated to levels where pessimists outnumbered pessimists in November. The wage price index report helps explain ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... the official cash rate was at 6.5% and rising. That's because us, Australians all, were feeling the love: consumer confidence was at 120.8 in July 2007 compared with 1014 in October 2017; retail spending was growing at annual rate of 7.7% compared with ...

BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... limited. The global economy is growing strongly, domestic financial conditions are highly accommodative and consumer confidence has remained resilient." But while the BOE's 2 November decision and its rationale heralds the beginning of normalisation ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... investment activity, which is already hampered by stressed balance sheets of banks and corporates." Moreover, "Consumer confidence and overall business assessment of the manufacturing and services sectors surveyed by the Reserve Bank weakened in Q2 of ...