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Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... rate policy has produced an economy that is growing faster than China - GDP grew at 7.3% in the year to the December quarter - to the point of overheating that it's lifting inflation. Turkey's core inflation rate had been in double-digits since ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... (3.9% unemployment rate and still tame wages growth). The Budget predicts the wage price index - up 2.1% in the December quarter - to grow by 2.25% in FY 2018-19 (still feasible) before accelerating to 2.75% the following year and 3.25% the next. Whether ...

Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
The financial markets' response to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Consumer Price Index report was a big "HO-HUM." With the report released a day before ANZAC Day, the response could have been because market players' thoughts were on something ...

MySuper growth leads industry

KANIKA SOOD, DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
MySuper products now have more than $635 billion in assets and account for about one-quarter of Australia's $2.6 trillion superannuation system. Rainmaker's latest MySuper report shows the sector is growing at twice (19%) the pace of overall superannuation ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed the economy grew by 2.4% in the year to the December quarter - a tad slower than the 2.5% annual growth rate recorded in the same quarter of last year. This helps explain the RBA's ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
"You may have noticed that at yesterday's meeting, the Reserve Bank Board left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5%, where it has been since August 2016." This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business ...

Chief economist update: The real growth in wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
It's certainly welcomed but nothing to write home about. I speak about the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Wage Price Index (WPI) report that revealed growth in total wages accelerated to 2.1% in the December quarter from 2% in the previous quarter. ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Instead of reversing, the yen continued to climb after Japan's Cabinet Office released the country's National Accounts showing that economic growth slowed to an annualised rate of 0.5% in the December quarter from 2.2% in the previous three-month period. ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Now we've seen it all - the "most hated bull market in history" and the "most widely-expected correction." To wax pedantic about this, the Dow and the S&P 500's big drop on the 5 February 2018 does not even fit the technical definition of a correction ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose." Jean-Baptiste Aphonse Karr's immortal epigram - translated as "the more things change, the more they stay the same" - best describes the goings-on over the past 24 hours. There were no surprises at the Fed's ...