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Confidence up but will consumers shop?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... consumer optimism is encouraging, it's still early to conclude that this would eventually prompt an increase in household spending. The latest ABS retail sales survey showed retail spending dropped by a bigger-than-expected 0.6% in the month of August. ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... should start thinking about bringing the official cash rate to another level of "emergency" before the weakening household spending turns into a vicious cycle. Then again, this would just jack up household debt levels (and property prices) to new heights ...

Profit margin squeeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... particularly, employment and wage increases - to maintain profitability. This would circle back into softer household spending. These, among others, help explain the Australian equity market's flat performance this year to date - the All Ordinaries index ...

Divergent business confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... the energy provider). The increase in electricity prices would divert any rise in wages (if any) away from household spending while at the same time raising operating costs among businesses, reducing their margins and by extension, investment in plant ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... this for the Australian economy: "Ongoing expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending. The recent sharp increase in the relative price of utilities poses a further downside risk to the non-energy part of household ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... this for the Australian economy: "Ongoing expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending. The recent sharp increase in the relative price of utilities poses a further downside risk to the non-energy part of household ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... on Monetary Policy', the RBA stated: "expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending." Not only this, whatever household spending is left would likely be spent on cheaper imports, thanks to the Australian dollar's ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... borrowing", Markit Economics noted. Not a good outlook for consumer demand. Not a good one for the economy overall as household spending accounts for over 65% of UK GDP. Reducing policy accommodation soon risks a further slowdown in consumer spending ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... evolving according to the BOJ's optimistic outlook. However, the same increase in inflation shows that real household spending has slowed to -1.4% year-on-year in April from -1.3% in March - marking the third full year that it had been in constant contraction. ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... spending will be further restrained by the 0.5% increase in the Medicare levy (if passed), among others. Slowing household spending - which accounts for roughly 60% of the economy - threatens the Budget forecasts for 3.0% GDP growth from FY 2018-19 onwards. ...