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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... press than the June quarter CPI report - which showed inflation in Australia remained below the RBA's target in the June quarter - but the Australian bank governor Philip Lowe's address to the Anika Foundation luncheon in Sydney was held on the same ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Australian inflation has decelerated - headline inflation slowed to 1.9% in the year to the June quarter from 2.1% in the March quarter. Yet it's also picked up - the weighted median up to 1.8% from 1.7%; but it's also flat - a trimmed mean steady at ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
In his interview with 'The Independent' earlier this month, the Bank of England's (BOE) MPC external member Gertjan Vlieghe cautioned: "This is an environment where a premature hike would be a bigger mistake than one that turns out to be slightly late." ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash ...

Ohanessian vindicated by record Praemium inflows

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
Praemium chief executive Michael Ohanessian, who was recently reappointed following a board spill, said the firm's record inflows in the June quarter represent a "tangible validation of our underlying growth strategy." In Q2 2017, Praemium achieved ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... prices. The diffusion index for "change in output prices" among large enterprises increased to a reading of +2 in the June quarter (from zero in the March quarter) but those for remained unchanged at -3 for an overall reading of -1 for all industries. ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... US$110) to a high of 2.9% (after oil's drop) in 2015. World private consumption growth has eased back to 2.6% in the June quarter (a lagged response to the previous two quarter's oil price rise). Continued weakness/weakening in the oil price should underpin ...

Sun rising in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The sun appears to be rising in the Land of the Rising Sun. Japanese consumer confidence rose to a reading of 43.1 in December from 40.9 in the previous month supported by a rally in the stock market and the yen's depreciation versus the US dollar. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... 3.1%. However, the September quarter figure represents an improvement from the double-digit drops posted in the June quarter (-15.5%) and March quarter (-14.3%). Manufacturing capex reversed the June quarter's 15.9% jump with a 4.9% fall in the three ...