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A-dollar rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! Australia's legal tender is again doing the rounds of the headlines. Disappointment over Trump's press conference last week - he talked and talked about everything except about his economic policies - brought the ...

Energy fuels US cross-border inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... prices provided partial offset. The year-on-year rate of import price inflation surged to 1.8% in December from 0.1% in November - the second straight month of positive reading since July 2014. The price of WTI oil went up by 8.8% in the month of December ...

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 ...

Slack Eurozone labour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... reading since May of 2011 as an acceleration in manufacturing - up to 54.7 (the best since April 2011) from 53.7 in November - offset a slight dip, albeit, still expanding services sector (down to 53.7 from 53.8). Across the region, the lowest jobless ...

Every American's turning optimist

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index continues to run of rising optimism in the United States following Trump's triumph at the November 2016 US presidential polls. The index - designed by the Investor's Business Daily (IBD) and TechnoMetrica Institute ...

Trump makes small beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... 2004, jumping to a reading of 105.8 last month and continuing the optimism - the index gained 3.5 points to 98.4 in November -- that ensued following the victory of the man who vowed to "Make America Great Again!" While higher than even the high range ...

Offline Australian retail sales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
The 0.2% increase in domestic retail spending in November wasn't in line with market expectations for a 0.4% gain that's for sure. This slowed the annual growth rate in retail spending to 3.3% from 3.5% in October. But I wonder whether Australians' ...

Super changes spark engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
The Federal Government's rollout of the biggest changes to superannuation in more than a decade is seeing financial advisers and investors pay increased attention to portfolio management. At the investor end of the spectrum, Colonial First State is ...

Australia housing boom busting?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
Don't be fooled by the sharp 7.0% jump in the headline total number of dwellings approved in the month of November. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data reveal that this was largely due to an 18.5% surge in private sector dwellings excluding houses ...

Australia construction activity eases contraction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
Construction activity in Australia remains in contraction, but the rate of contraction is easing. This is the indication from the Australian Industry Group's (AiG)/Housing Industry Group (HIA) Performance of Construction Index. The index climbed to ...