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No wolf here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the UK economy remains resilient to the lingering uncertainty that is Brexit. UK GDP expanded by 0.6% in the fourth quarter of 2016, the same rate as it has in the September and June quarters. This is ...

Brexit beginning to bite?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
Latest data show that UK retail spending dropped big time in December. Total retail sales declined by 1.9% over the month of December following a 0.1% decrease in the previous month. This much sharper than market expectations for a 0.1% dip and is the ...

Economic headwinds lead Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... Managers head of Framlington Equities, Asia, Mark Tinker Master of Ceremonies and renowned economist Saul Eslake Trump, Brexit and European elections, ongoing central bank policy and developments in property, currency and interest rates will all be on ...

Brexit where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
Latest UK labour market data provided more signs of PM Theresa May having the upper hand in Brexit negotiations. The country's unemployment rate remained at a low 4.8% in the three months to November with the employment rate holding at a record high ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... Prime Minister Theresa May's speech before EU ambassadors in London last night ended months of speculation over whether Brexit would be hard, soft, or something in-between. The UK will cut... and cut clean. "Brexit means Brexit." While the certainty ...

The race is on for offshore investments

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... important for Australian fund managers because of the ongoing market volatility in the wake of Donald Trump's election and Brexit; this is the point where fund managers, super funds and the FSC need to "talk about the value fund managers create." "We're ...

SMSF investors trade during market volatility

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... in the ASX Top 20 during 2016. Commsec analysis shows that during an August 2015 market downturn, the fallout after the Brexit vote, and the US election, SMSF investors were the most active investors in the retail segment, and traded on average 30% more ...

Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... head of Australian research, Su Lin Ong AXA Investment Managers head of Framlington Equities, Asia, Mark Tinker Trump, Brexit and European elections, ongoing central bank policy and developments in property, currency and interest rates will all be on ...

The UK's still OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
Brexit worries aside, the UK economy remains OK. Along with the latest improvement in business and consumer confidence and PMI surveys, industrial and manufacturing output has bounced back. To be sure, market expected industrial and manufacturing rebound ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... It finished the year 7.0% on the UP. Another lesson 2016 taught us is that consensus polls are not always right. Think Brexit, think Trump, think about the Fed's expected four interest rate hikes that was coming over the course of 2016, think also about ...