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Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... previous month, the fifth straight month of slowing since peaking at 1.8% in January this year. 'Tis the same for the Eurozone where headline inflation slowed to 1.3% in the year to June, down from 1.4% in the previous month and 1.9% in April. While ...

Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
Markit Economics' preliminary estimates show that while the purchasing managers' indices (PMI) for the US, the Eurozone and Japan all came in below market expectations, all remained in expansion. The IHS/Markit flash US composite output index slipped ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... that financial markets are speculating that the European Central Bank (ECB) would follow suit...and soon. After all the Eurozone economy's gaining momentum. GDP growth accelerated to 1.9% in the year to the March quarter from 1.8% in the December 2016 ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... and rising credit growth and house prices and interest rate gaps - monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone and Japan. "Closing this policy-path gap will likely engender higher financial volatilities than are currently priced in." "Financial ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... the Trump-led 2.0% growth rate in the US and the UK's 1.9% (using the same measure) but marginally stronger than the Eurozone's 1.70% and Japan's 1.6%. As telegraphed by the current account data, net exports (exports minus imports) provided the biggest ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... billion tranche of bailout funds from its creditors) - but nah, ever since Greece burned the Grexit bridge out of the Eurozone and said they'll stay, the threat of contagion faded away - economic activity in the single currency area have gaining momentum. ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... pick-up in the global economy since last year," he said. More recent survey and eco stats releases out of the US, the Eurozone, Japan and the UK suggest that this is broadening still. And while there's a bit of slowing in China - manufacturing and services ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... in 11 months of 0.7% in March from 0.9% in December, January and February despite strengthening growth momentum in the Eurozone economy. And oh, there's also the case of the RBA's concern over the froth in the Australian housing market that could spark ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... (55.1 from 53.3). On the other hand, a Le Pen victory would introduce fresh uncertainty, not only for France but on the Eurozone and the European Union as a whole - i.e., Frexit and its contagion effects. Volatility here come. Just as Napoleon Bonaparte ...

Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... manufactured goods (12.9%); foodstuff (12.6%); electrical machinery (10.6%); transport equipment (9.5%); others (9.2%). Like the Eurozone, growth is gaining momentum in Japan. But similar to the Eurozone inflation remains low - headline CPI inflation ...