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Housing market faces heavy downside risk

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... downside risks associated with investing in property are elevated." Those favourable conditions include very low interest rates, high debt levels, low unemployment and strong economic growth. The risks, then, are interest rates rising in the medium-term ...

Moody Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... and predictions of falling property prices (negative for property investors and home owners) - along with rising interest rates (big banks have started raising mortgage rates) and slim chance of the RBA cutting interest rates this year. Recall that consumer ...

Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... Tinker Trump, Brexit and European elections, ongoing central bank policy and developments in property, currency and interest rates will all be on the agenda for the 11th annual forum and breakfast. According to Baur, a brief look ahead in 2017 indicates ...

China's inflation off target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... increase in producer prices since September 2011. The below-target CPI inflation update allows the PBOC to lower interest rates, especially as the dichotomy between consumer and producer price inflation suggests soft consumer spending - firms aren't ...

Trump makes small beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... from 31 in November (a function of higher wages demands?). Small business owners are also worried about rising interest rates with expected credit conditions down to minus 6 from minus 4.

Asia driving infrastructure deal activity

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... competition for assets - particularly secondary stage assets in developed economies - has pushed valuations upwards. Low interest rates have also contributed to higher pricing demands as leverage becomes cheaper, which will be a concern for firms."

Guest of honour

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... industry than some younger entrants. "We didn't have calculators," he says, "so I got a very good understanding of how interest rates work. Nowadays, when someone at a bank doesn't understand something, they pull up the computer and get that to work ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... time that that depreciation boost economic growth. This would put upward pressure on inflation and on domestic interest rates - US/Aus interest rate differential narrows - and lifts the A$ back up. Happy Christmas to all and may your days be happy and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... month's 26 reading. Japan monetary policy decision As was widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged minus 0.1% at its 20 December meeting. The Japanese central bank also maintained its yield target for 10-year ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... imperative for the government to do the Keynesian thing and spend. It's time to crowd-in private investment (while interest rates remain relatively low). We only have to look at the goodwill and raised growth expectations engendered by President-elect ...