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Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) report and true to form, it's once more taking down earlier more optimistic forecasts. In October 2015, the IMF saw world economic output growing brightly ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
Australia trade balance Australia's trade deficit narrowed by 5.0% to A$2.01 billion in August from A$2.12 billion in July (revised from A$2.41 billion), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show. This is better than market expectations for a ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
Australia retail sales It hasn't been since January this year that we saw retail spending increase at this monthly rate. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that retail sales grew by 0.4% in the month of August - higher than the ...

Erin Truscott named AFA Rising Star

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... leading advisers in the profession." The award was last won by Harvest Wealth's Kylie George and in 2014 was held by Benjamin Budge. AFA chief executive Brad Fox is one previous notable winner. He took home the award in 2008. ANZ Wealth managing director ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Australia ANZ job ads The latest ANZ job ads survey shows that the total number of job advertisements fell by 0.3% in the month of September following the strong 1.7% jump in the previous month. The year-on-year growth in job ads slowed to 3.7% last ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australia private sector credit Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) figures showed that the annual growth in private sector credit slowed from 6.0% in July to 5.8% in August - the slowest rate since October 2014. Except for the bumps in December 2015 and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
US GDP The final estimate of US real GDP showed the economy expanding at an annualised rate of 1.4% in the second quarter. This represents an upgrade from the second estimate's 1.1% growth and better than expectations for a 1.3% gain. While personal ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
US durable goods orders The latest update on total new durable goods orders could easily be taken as a positive for, despite a flat (0% growth) outcome in August from July, this was better than market expectations for a 1.9% decline and could be attributed ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
US consumer confidence The Conference Board's consumer confidence index jumped to 104.1 in September from an upwardly revised 101.8 in the previous month. This is better than consensus expectations for a dip to 99.0 and is the highest level since the ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Waning. Impotent. Ineffective. End-game. These were some of the adjectives applied to the major central banks' "non-conventional" policy stimuli of recent years. Terms, that when mentioned with the word "lift" alongside the Fed and the loss of faith ...