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US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... meets on 13-14 June. US non-farm payrolls rose by 138,000 in the month of May - down from the 174,000 addition recorded in April (downwardly revised from 211,000) and significantly less than consensus expectations for a 185,000 gain. There was good news ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... Yes, only yesterday we got a pleasant surprise from the ABS report that showed retail sales surged by 1.0% in the month of April - more than three times the expected growth of 0.3%. But as JP Morgan economist Tom Kennedy explains, the large increase ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... April from 3.5% in the previous month and 7.3% in April last year. Personal lending continued to contract, down 1.5% in April - the 18th straight month of decline. Despite APRA's tighter rules on property lending and banks and lending agencies' implementing ...

Approved to build more dwellings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... the year-on-year numbers show continued contraction in the property sector. Despite a slight improvement in the year to April - down 17.2% from -20% in March - total dwelling units approved remained in double-digit contraction with the latest figure ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... The latest update on Japan's consumer prices shows just that. The annual headline inflation rate accelerated to 0.4% in April - the fastest since January this year and double that of the 0.2% rate recorded in the previous month. Similarly, the core inflation ...

First State Super appoints CFO

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
Profit-to-member superannuation fund First State Super is expanding its executive team with the appointment of a chief financial officer. Tim Elliott, previously the chief operating officer and chief financial officer at StatePlus, has taken up the ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
If Monsieur Benoit Coeure's - member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) - recent comments are any indication, don't expect any changes in ECB monetary policy settings anytime soon. Coure told his audience at a conference at the ...

Australians pass on life insurance

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
Australian parents experience anxiety about their family's future but remain woefully unprepared for the long-term financial burdens associated with the event of a death. The latest Real Insurance Family Protection Survey finds one in four Australian ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... the latest update on the country's labour market that showed the unemployment rate dropped from 5.9% in March to 5.7% in April - better than the 5.75% projected in the Budget 2017-18 papers. But the latest labour market report could be a case of one ...

SSGA ramps tech exposure post-Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
The first 100 days of the Trump administration have seen State Street Global Advisors double its exposure to US technology companies in its Global Equity Fund, even if said exposure still trails the cap-weighted index. SSGA global active quantitative ...