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The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
"This is the moment; this is the day When I send all my doubts and demons on their way. Every endeavor I have made ever Is coming into play, is here and now today." -Donny Osmond, 'This is the moment" Well, Wednesday (14 December 2016), to be precise ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
Australia trade balance It makes a nice sequel to the horror 0.5% contraction in Australia's third quarter GDP growth, a widening of the country's trade deficit, that is. Australia's trade deficit rose by 21.3% to A$1.54 billion in October from A$1.27 ...

Link executive joins Moneysoft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
Personal financial management software provider Moneysoft appointed a senior Link Group executive to its board. Following a strategic partnership between the two firms, Link's information, digital and data services chief executive Paul Gardiner is now ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) showed that job openings in America fell by 97K to 5.53 million in October (in line with expectations) from 5.63 million in the previous month (upwardly revised from 5.49 million), taking the job openings ...

Small caps and corporate activity drive LIC performance

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
Small and mid-cap LICs continued their strong performance in the second half of 2016, with a growing pipeline of corporate activity shining a positive light on the sector moving into 2017. Independent Investment Research's (IIR) Listed Investment Company ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
Australia GDP Economists expected Australia's economic growth to halve to 0.3% in the September quarter from 0.6% in the three-months ended June. That turned out to be highly optimistic. This is because the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) latest ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
Australia AiG performance of services It wasn't as sharp as the 3.3 point increase in the manufacturing index to 54.2 in November, but the AiG performance of services index's 0.6 point rise to 51.1 continues the trend towards stronger expansion seen ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... US employment grew in line with expectations (+178K) in November while the unemployment rate fell to 4.6% from 4.9% in October (full employment?). This is because Wall Street has resigned itself to a Fed rate hike by the middle of this month... and without ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
Australia capex The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on business investment shows actual private new capital expenditure drop by 4.0% in the September quarter. While worse than market expectations for a 2.5% fall, the third quarter figure ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... the Housing Industry Association (HIA) show that total new home sales dropped by 8.5% to 7,094 units in the month of October - the lowest level since July 2014 (7,054 units). Sales of detached houses declined by 8.2% in October while those for multi-unit ...