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Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... August from 96.6 in July. This is the ninth straight month where pessimists outnumbered optimists (below 100) and worse, the sixth consecutive month of deteriorating confidence. In a nutshell, Evans explained that "the survey detail suggests increased ...

Super system needs work on environmental and governance factors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... improvement, according to a global asset manager. Natixis Global Asset Management's 2017 Global Retirement Index ranks Australia sixth out of 43 countries when comparing the ability of nations to meet retiree needs. The firm's Australian managing director ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... Michael Wilson's piece "The Australian Dollar's Outlook Darkens". Wilson talked about leveraged long A$ positions for the sixth straight week to 9 May. By the 29th of the same month, 'Business Insider' printed that "positioning in currency turned net ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... good and services fell by 1.4% in the March quarter following a 0.1% dip in the previous three-month period and marking the sixth straight quarter that manufacturing sales have been either flat or contracting. Similarly, wholesale trade sales of good ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... month, While full-time employment improved -to -0.28% from -0.61% -- the annual growth rate remained in contraction (for the sixth straight month). Similarly, part-time jobs growth eased to 3.4% from 4.3%. Even the ABS' trend estimate of total employment ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... than the expected 7.7% rise. This is the fastest rate of increase in producer prices since September 2008 and marked the sixth consecutive month of accelerating inflation at the factory gate.

Former ING DIRECT chief joins P2P lender

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... retail banking executives. He launched Australia's first branchless bank model and helped ING DIRECT become Australia's sixth largest retail bank. He has extensive banking experience across Asia, where he led ING Group's commercial and retail banking ...

CBA receives top sustainability endorsement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... business in a list of global companies for the second year in a row. The G100 Sustainability Index also ranked CBA as the sixth most sustainable company in the world, as announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. CBA was measured against ...

Australia housing boom busting?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... in October (see what I mean). The more stable ABS trend measure shows this category declining by 5.7% in November for its sixth straight monthly fall. Approvals for private sector houses declined by 0.2% in the month of November following October's 2.4% ...

Australia lags in infrastructure returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... built asset performance including emerging nations such as the Philippines and Thailand. Per capita, Australia is ranked sixth. The index predicts that by 2026 Australia will fall to 23rd for total returns from built assets. Director, built asset consultancy ...