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Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... important determinant of actual inflation because, in deciding how much to adjust wages for individual jobs and prices of goods and services at a particular time, firms take into account the rate of overall inflation they expect to prevail in the future". ...

Australia in China's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... export markets combined - Japan (11.8%), South Korea (5.8%), USA (5.8%), UK (4.4%), and India (3.9%). Australia's exports of goods and services, in turn, account for a big portion (around 24.1%) of the Land Down Under's economy. Whereas, exports to Australia ...

Regnan launches global equity impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... metric for defining impact in public equities - by looking at the growth and scaling up of the company's particular goods and services and how they meet the targets, Crockford said. "In terms of the reporting, we built our own measurement framework ...

Chief economist update: Australia is out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... Here's the ABS' take: "Household spending drove the economy, rising 7.9 per cent due to increased spending on both goods and services. Spending on services rose 9.8 per cent, driven by spending on hotels, cafes and restaurants, health and recreation ...

Climate change-focused fund introduced

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... coming years." The Climate Transition Global Equity Fund invests in global companies that derive material revenues from goods and services addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as investing in those companies aligning their business ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... markets combined - Japan (11.8%), South Korea (5.8%), USA (5.8%), UK (4.4%), and India (3.9%). Australia's exports of goods and services account for around 24.1% of the country's GDP. On the other side of the trade balance ledger, exports to ...

WTW calls for more investment in China

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... to China." As well as the US-China trade war launched by US President Donald Trump, China has begun rejecting Australian goods or imposing heavy duties on Australian products. So far, China has targeted Australian barley, lobster and coal. Most recently ...

COVID-19 upends business travel, technology

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... nearly two-thirds (64%) of chief executives in the Asia Pacific leading the financial services, real estate and consumer goods sectors are rethinking about the way they visit offshore operations as technology has made it possible to communicate more ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... to A$ 30,532 million in October from the previous month. Betterer still and as the ABS reports: "For October there is a goods trade surplus of $4.84 billion (original, current price, merchandise trade basis)". This is despite Australian goods imports ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... only that, the price of iron ore keeps on going and going... up. Iron ore accounts for over 25% of Australia's total goods exports. To date, iron ore prices have rallied by 57.5% from this year's low and are 33.2% higher compared with 2020's ...