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Treasury rolls out ASIC industry funding fee paper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... currently does not recover any fees for these activities: "Traditionally, many of these activities have only attracted a nominal fee, which has not been subject to any review resulting in the cost of these activities being subsidised by taxpayers." Describing ...

The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... medium term". The chart below shows the movement in inflation expectations - as measured by the differential between the nominal yield on US Treasuries and those of Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) of the same maturity. The rebound in inflation ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... real wages. Real wage growth had been negative since February this year as inflation accelerated faster than growth in nominal wages. Nominal average weekly earnings growth (2.1% in July) need to increase at the same 3% rate of headline CPI inflation ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... comes out. But for now, let's go back to the 'Taylor Rule' - "a reduced form approximation of the responsiveness of the nominal interest rate, as set by the central bank, to changes in inflation, output, or other economic conditions." (Investopedia). ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... know): "In economics, a Taylor rule is a monetary-policy rule that stipulates how much the central bank should change the nominal interest rate in response to changes in inflation, output, or other economic conditions." Based on the Taylor Rule and using ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... $US10 a tonne change in the price results in $A1.4 billion increase or decrease in tax receipts, and $A6 billion change in nominal GDP... For 2017/18, the impact will be greater, with every $US10 a tonne change impacting tax receipts by $3.9 billion ...

Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... 'lower for longer'. McBirnie said this is reflective of the Reserve Bank of Australia noting in July that the neutral nominal cash rate is now 3.5% rather than 5% previously. "Even so, SMSF households are still better placed than most sectors of the ...

The British pound's sterling reversal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... need to rise... as early as the coming months." Vlieghe reasoned that "rising real wage growth, both due to improving nominal wage growth and the expected easing back of inflation, would support consumption growth further out." At an annual pace of about ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... adjustment problems with the August payrolls. With US inflation expectations again rising - the yield differential between the nominal 10 year Treasuries and TIPS has risen to 1.78% from this year's low of 1.65% -- it's all systems go for another rate ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... not be accelerating but it's still growing (1.9% in the year to the June quarter). The problem is that slow growth in nominal wages is being outpaced by increases in consumer prices. For the June quarter growth in real wages (nominal wages adjusted for ...