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Chief economist update: Delta variant infects Australian economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
... start of the pandemic. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.1% in May - the seventh straight month of decline -- from 5.5% in April and 5.3% in March 2020 when lockdowns started. Record or near-record high business conditions and confidence and above-average ...

Chief economist update: Japan still waiting for the sun to rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... straight month indicating contraction in private sector activity - from May's final reading of 48.8 in May and 51.0 in April. "New orders also reduced for the second successive month, and at the fastest pace since February. Panel members commonly ...

Chief economist update: UK not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... prices recede. UK inflation is certainly headed higher. Headline CPI inflation accelerated from an annual rate of 1.5% in April to 2.1% in May - above the 2% target and the 1.8% rate predicted in the May Report. Likewise, core inflation quickened from ...

Chief economist update: Thank you, my frenemy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... live without our biggest export. According to the ABS: "The increase in metalliferous ores to China [up 20% in May from April] was once again driven by iron ore, up $2,087m (20%) to $12,666m. This is the third consecutive record export month for both ...

Dexus reports higher portfolio valuations

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... properties and is valued at $2.3 billion. In May, it bid to acquire APN Group that valued the latter at about $320 million. In April, the Dexus Wholesale Property Fund and the AMP Capital Diversified Property Fund won shareholder approval from both funds ...

NZ Super Fund hires asset allocation head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... finance at the University of Melbourne, University of British Columbia, Macquarie University and University of Sydney. In April, Joe Halapua was promoted to the role of manager of NZ equities. He will report to head of direct investment Will Goodwin. ...

Chief economist update: Chinese activity indicators disappoint but growth target intact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... market consensus expectations. The NBS reported that Chinese retail sales grew by 12.4% in the year to May down from 17.7% April, March's year-on-year rate of 34.2% and lower than market expectations for a 17.0% print. The annual growth in industrial ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS): "Employment increased by 115,000 people in May, following the 31,000 fall in April, around the Easter holiday period. Over the past two months, employment increased by around 84,000 people, and was 1% higher ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... CoreLogic's home value index shows that the Five city capital aggregate index increased by another 2.3% in the month of May (from April's 1.8%) to be 9.1% higher from a year earlier. Not only that, CoreLogic's research director, Tim Lawless ...

James Mawhinney files appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... presented. "Our team has identified substantial material errors in legal judgment of the order of the Federal Court made on 19 April 2021 at Melbourne. Our application is to have the matter dismissed with costs," Roberts Gray Lawyers managing director ...