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Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
In its 9 March statement, the European Central Bank (ECB) stated that, "A very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium term". However, if ...

ANZ inks deal with IT platform

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
ANZ entered into an agreement with an ASX-listed provider of knowledge management software. Knosys develops enterprise-grade knowledge management software which facilitates information sharing across disparate business units. The initial $34,000 order ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Don't you just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell ...

Traded goods inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
Quickening US import and export price inflation indicates that, barring a surprisingly weak US non-farm payrolls report (released later tonight), the fed funds rate would be at 0.75%-1.0% in about five days' time (15th of March). Import prices rose ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
People's Bank of China (PBOC) deputy governor Yi Gang's predicted inflation rate of 2% - 3% for this year appears at risk should the recent sharp slowdown in CPI inflation persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in ...

MLC Life Insurance upgrades underwriting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... the introduction of MLC Life Insurance's new tele-underwriting service. Halving the lengthy underwriting process, the new Fast Track service will benefit both financial advisers and clients from a simplified administrative perspective. Advisers can now ...

Listed advice groups gaining ground

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... Specifically these are firms generating more than $1 million in revenue and smaller firms with $500,000 in revenue but are growing fast, de Zwart said. "We're happy to help facilitate the restructure and change management to those advice firms and take ...

Fox warns against direct life insurance again

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Consumers who purchase direct life insurance are at risk when it comes to claim time, the head of the Association of Financial Advisers warns. Buying life insurance over the phone or online should set off alarm bells - it means the policy has not been ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Along with household consumption, exports were the biggest contributor - both adding 0.5 percentage point -- to Australia's faster-than-expected 1.1% expansion in the fourth quarter of last year (expectations were for a 0.7% gain), that took the annual ...

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
The latest lending stats out of the Eurozone continue the developing good news story in the single currency area despite the lingering political uncertainty - elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany - Brexit and continuing terrorist threat ...