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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... represented the The acceleration in the index indicates a robust Christmas shopping season and buoyant retail spending. Eurozone labour costs Hourly labour costs in the Eurozone increased by 1.5% in the year to the third quarter, accelerating from 1.0% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... also significantly higher than market expectations for an increase to 9 and the highest reading since November 2014. Eurozone ZEW economic sentiment Financial and economic analysts' optimism over the Eurozone continues to improve. The ZEW economic sentiment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... relatively cheaper A$, rising commodity prices and reflating world economy should underpin improvement going forward. Eurozone ECB policy decision As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept its monetary policy unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... willingness or ability to leave current employment) remaining steady at 2.1%, where it had been since June this year. Eurozone retail sales Retail spending in the single currency region rose by 1.1% in the month of October more than reversing the declines ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... 1.8% in the September quarter from 3.1% in the second but (using the same measure) still ahead of the US (1.6%), the Eurozone (1.7%), Japan (0.8%) but slower than the UK's (2.3%). The details of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report show ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... month, it remains well over the expansion/contraction line and (except for October) remains the highest level this year. Eurozone Markit composite PMI Markit Economics' final PMI readings show accelerating Eurozone economic activity. The composite PMI ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... index jumped to 8.0 from 1.2. Wages and benefits also climbed to 18.4 from 16.4. December fed rate hike here we come. Eurozone M3 money supply The region's M3 money supply slowed to 4.4% in the year to October from 5.0% in the previous month. This is ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... index read 91.3 (in November 2015), the current conditions index was at 104.3 and the expectations index was at 82.9. Eurozone PMI The flash Markit Eurozone composite PMI rose to a reading of 54.1 in November, up from 53.3 in the previous month and beating ...

The $25 trillion decision US voters have to make

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... "Rotations out of sectors with poor fundamentals will likely resume and, I suspect, attention will start to shift to the eurozone into year end," he said. Australian investors are voting with their wallets - by keeping them closed, according to latest ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... as in the previous month. This measure had been flat (between 1.6% and 1.7%) over the past nine months of this year. Eurozone GDP and inflation Preliminary estimates indicated some stability in the Eurozone economy with real GDP expanding at a quarterly ...