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No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... February, that followed the reported upwards trend in the Fed's favoured inflation measure - the PCE price index - to 1.9% in January - to its 2% inflation target, has all but made this a certainty. US businesses added 235,000 workers to their payrolls ...

Traded goods inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
Quickening US import and export price inflation indicates that, barring a surprisingly weak US non-farm payrolls report (released later tonight), the fed funds rate would be at 0.75%-1.0% in about five days' time (15th of March). Import prices rose ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in the year to February, slowing from 2.5% in January (and above 2.0% in October, November and December 2016). This is the slowest rate of inflation since January 2015 and is ...

Low-flation at the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
Low-flation at the core The European Central Bank's (ECB) governing council decided to keep monetary policy steady - refinancing rate at 0%, deposit rate at -0.4%, marginal lending facility at 0.25% -- while at the same time confirming that its asset ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
The just-released "OECD Economic Surveys, Australia" provided a pretty growth picture of the domestic economy, forecasting GDP growth of 2.6% this year and 3.1% in 2018 - one that would lower the current jobless rate from 5.7% (January 2017) to 5.5% ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Along with household consumption, exports were the biggest contributor - both adding 0.5 percentage point -- to Australia's faster-than-expected 1.1% expansion in the fourth quarter of last year (expectations were for a 0.7% gain), that took the annual ...

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... tempered by still low inflation in the single currency area. While the annual headline CPI inflation rate jumped to 1.8% in January (from 1.1% in the previous month) and appears headed for the RBA's 2.0% target, it had been boosted by rising fuel and ...

Bad credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... month-on-month growth rates, at least. Total private sector credit went up by a lower than expected 0.2% in the month of January - the slowest pace since June last year. But this came on the back of the 0.7% surge in the previous month, which was the ...

A good set of numbers (almost)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
... explain the latest jump in the NAB survey that showed business conditions increased by 6 points to a reading of +16 in January - the highest since October 2007 -- while confidence rose by 4 points to +10 - the highest since February 2014. Australian ...

Platinum's AUM and profit take a hit

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
Platinum Asset Management reported a significant drop in assets under management and profitability in the six months to December 2016. Total AUM of $23.2 billion was hit with a $1.7 billion net outflow, down 13% on the previous corresponding period ...