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Flashes: activity expansion and moderating inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... the world's biggest economies of continued expansion in manufacturing and service sector activity and low or easing inflation. Markit's flash US composite PMI output index accelerated to a reading of 54.2 in July from 53.9 in the previous month. This ...

Retirement income fund launches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... investors accumulating wealth, retirees broadly need: regular income - to cover living expenses and to keep pace with inflation, lower investment risk - to preserve capital and reduce the impact of market downturns, and capital growth - to ensure their ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... rate "counteract the benefit to the Australian economy of faster global growth," it would also put downward pressure on inflation. More so these days when stronger growth fails to generate faster inflation. The problem is not measured inflation per se ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... in terms of household income that would boost consumer spending. More so, given that real wages (nominal wages less inflation) has turned slightly negative in the March quarter of this year. The correlation between the unemployment rate and the NAIRU ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... points to around 1 per cent. This equated to a neutral nominal cash rate of around 31/2 per cent, given that medium-term inflation expectations were well anchored around 21/2 per cent." As a result, the odds for a rate hike in May 2018 increased to 91% ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... half of last year - on rate hike expectations - may have weakened the growth momentum in the US economy and that of inflation, prompting speculations of gentler policy normalisation. The reverse is happening in Australia where the cheaper currency is ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
"It is worth remembering that it can take 18 to 24 months for a monetary policy action to have its full effect on inflation. This means that central banks must target future inflation by anticipating future deviations from target." These were the words ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... utilisation somewhat further, thereby fostering a stronger pace of wage and price increases."...and her doubts about inflation: "There is, for example, uncertainty about when and how much inflation will respond to tightening resource utilisation." Nonetheless ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... (14.5%) and Mexico (12.0%). The Federal Reserve Board was correct (back then), the correlation between US and Chinese inflation was loose at best right through 2006 but have become positively correlated since the years following the GFC. Inflation in ...

Transport bolsters listed infrastructure demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... water pipes or electricity networks, which despite being highly regulated, provide stable and growing cash flows and inflation protection making them an interesting long-term investment, no matter the economic environment.