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Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... prices in some cities." Speaking of household income, the Budget predicts the wage price index - up 2.3% in the December quarter - to grow by 2.5% in FY 2018/19 (still feasible) before accelerating to 2.75% the following year and 3.25% the next. Whether ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... raise their consumption and spending when wages growth remains muted -- unchanged at 2.3% in the year to the December quarter -- and this, despite the country's unemployment rate dropping to an eight-year low of 4.9% in February. Other household ...

Chief economist update: The Fed should act now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... know what happened thereafter. Last night's US GDP growth downgrade to an annualised rate of 2.2% in the December quarter (from the advanced estimate of 2.6% and 3.4% in the September quarter and 4.2% in June) indicates the slowdown is gathering ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... Just have a read at what the ABS said about this: "Government final consumption expenditure rose 1.8% in the December quarter 2018 and remains strong through the year at 5.6%. National non-defence (4.2%) was the main contributor to growth in the quarter ...

Chief economist update: Cut it, cut it now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that wages growth remained unchanged at 2.3% in the year to the December quarter from the previous one. Taken to two decimal points, wages actually slowed to 2.27% from 2.29%. It's now time for the RBA ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... a negative contribution of 0.3 percentage points." Although exports of goods and services rose by 0.9% in the December quarter (after a 1.4% fall in the third quarter), imports grew by more - up by 2.7% following a 0.7% decline over the same period. ...

Macquarie expects profit jump

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... won an investment management mandate from the The Infrastructure Fund - a $2.5 billion unlisted fund - in the December quarter. Macquarie Asset Management had $532 billion in assets under management at December end. Macquarie Infrastructure and Real ...

Chief economist update: UK economy slows on Brexit woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... effects from Brexit uncertainties at home". Gross fixed capital expenditure declined by 1.4% year-on-year in the December quarter following a 0.3% fall in the previous quarter led by the 3.7% drop in business investment - the sharpest rate of decline ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... faster than it currently is," it's slowing (from 3.1% in the year to the September quarter to 2.8% in the December quarter). Indications from more recent activity data - business conditions and confidence, consumer confidence and spending, the AiG ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... economy's national output was double their expected of 0.1%. Year-on-year, Italian GDP grew 0.1% in the year to the December quarter, the fifth straight quarter of slowing GDP growth since the 1.7% recorded in the June quarter of 2017 and followed ...