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Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... in the Eurozone. Advance estimates show that the single currency region's GDP grew by a mere 0.2% in the September quarter - half the previous two quarters 0.4% rate, half market expectations for a 0.4% expansion and the weakest quarterly growth ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... as growth in household spending accelerated from an annualised rate of 3.8% in the June quarter to 4% in the September quarter. To be sure, Trump's tax cuts are now working its way into the US economy, lifting consumers' disposable income that ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... on the Fed's preferred measure of inflation - the core PCE price index - is for an easing to 1.8% in the September quarter from 2.1% in the June quarter. These suggest that the Fed's previous rate hikes (along with the shrinking of its balance ...

Downsizer scheme gains ground

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... contributions strategy is gaining traction, with the new scheme topping the list of adviser queries for the September quarter. BT Financial Group's technical team fielded about 3000 queries over the quarter, a significant number of which were around ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... China's authorities get going. Fresh data that showed the Chinese economy slowed to 6.5% in the year to the September quarter shouldn't have generated big concerns - despite headlines that it is the slowest growth rate since the first quarter ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... quarter. The August Monetary Policy Statement forecasts the headline CPI inflation rate to ease to 1.4% in the September quarter of this year and won't reach the midpoint of its 1%-3% target before the March quarter of 2021. In away the New Zealand ...

Fidante eyes actively managed ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... first of its kind in the Australian market. The ActiveX series is expected to launch its first product in the September quarter. The actively managed fixed income ETF will be followed gradually by products in other asset classes. Challenger's chief ...

Chief economist update: Forget asking for a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... growth by two quarters. This means that at the very least, wages would remain stuck in the slow lane until the September quarter of this year. The government's (and Labor's) proposed tax cuts should help mitigate the weakness in household consumption ...

Chief economist update: Stuck in the very slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... that wages eased to 2.07% in the March 2018 quarter from 2.08% in the December 2017 quarter and 2.09% in the September quarter. Normally, I wouldn't quibble about decimal points but RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle's recent statement at the CFO ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... unemployment and rising wages (up 2.8% in the year to the January quarter which is the fastest rate since the September quarter of 2015).