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Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... The "weighted average of eight capital cities" residential property prices increased by 5% in the year to the December quarter, slowing from 8.3% in the September quarter and 10.2% in the June quarter. Except for Darwin and Perth where house prices have ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed the economy grew by 2.4% in the year to the December quarter - a tad slower than the 2.5% annual growth rate recorded in the same quarter of last year. This helps explain the RBA's ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... growth strengthened from 1.8% in the year to the March quarter to 2.9% in the September quarter (we'll get the December quarter update later today); the unemployment rate improved from 5.7% in January 2017 to 5.5% in the same month this year; business ...

Chief economist update: Australia low on credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... improvement is yet to translate into faster wages growth. The Wage Price Index (WPI) grew by 2.1% in the year to the December quarter, marginally above the previous quarter's 2% and not far above the record slowest 1.9% growth in the June quarter. A ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... data dependence says, this won't be too soon as evidence by recent "data" showing sluggish wages growth in the December quarter. 'twas same old, same old for the ECB too with the minutes of its 24-25 January meeting revealing that the Governing Council ...

Chief economist update: The real growth in wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... Statistics' (ABS) Wage Price Index (WPI) report that revealed growth in total wages accelerated to 2.1% in the December quarter from 2% in the previous quarter. Let's give it a little "yay" for still sluggish as it may be, it's higher than market expectations ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... released the country's National Accounts showing that economic growth slowed to an annualised rate of 0.5% in the December quarter from 2.2% in the previous three-month period. This is less than market expectations for a 0.9% expansion and is the slowest ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... consumer prices showed little change. Australian headline inflation accelerated a tad to 1.9% in the year to the December quarter from 1.8% in the previous one but is below market expectations for an increase to 2% and still below the lower band of the ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... change" in RBA monetary policy as well. Australian headline inflation accelerated a tad to 1.9% in the year to the December quarter from 1.8% in the previous one but is below market expectations for an increase to 2% and still below the lower band of ...

Praemium SMAs go global

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... flagged that Praemium is looking to invest further in the UK pensions market following record inflows for the December quarter. "International FUA is up 34% on last year, and pending further investments in the UK pensions market, we believe that 2018 ...