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Big four urged to pay up dividends

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... whom are retirees, will put further strain on the economy, which we believe will fall into a deep recession in the June quarter of 2020," he said. The investment manager said the big four banks paid 30% of gross dividends of the entire S&P/ASX 200 index ...

Chief economist update: Working nine to five, barely getting by

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... year to the December 2019 quarter - unchanged from the previous quarter and the slowest annual growth rate since the June quarter of 2018. Private sector wage growth also remained unchanged at 2.2% while wages growth in the public sector decelerated ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus threatens Tokyo Olympics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... the Japan Tourism Agency (JTA), international visitors to Japan spend around ¥144,082 each (US$1310) - as at the June quarter of 2018. JTA estimates tourism's impact on the domestic economy as follows: Ripple effect on production: 46.7 trillion ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... Eurozone real GDP growth expanded by 1.2% in the year to the September 2019 quarter - the same growth rate as in the June quarter. HICP inflation has quickened to 1.0% in the year to November after slowing to a three-year low of 0.7% in the previous ...

Chief economist update: A penny saved, a penny not earned by the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... despite the 2.5% quarterly increase in household disposable income in the third quarter (from a mere 0.3% in the June quarter) -- "driven by a decline in income tax payable, which was impacted by the introduction of the low and middle income tax offset" ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
Australia's economic growth accelerated to 1.7% in the year to the September quarter from 1.6% in the June quarter, justifying Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe's oft-repeated claim that, "the Australian economy appears to ...

Chief economist update: Lower rates still fail to animate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... total new private capital spending fell by 0.2% in the September quarter, a bit better than the 0.6% decline in the June quarter, but still worse than the "relatively" upbeat expectations of no growth, marking the third straight quarterly contraction ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... after all - to boost economic activity and growth. But with household debt running at 191.1% of disposable income (June quarter 2019), further interest rate reductions would almost surely be used to pay down debt rather than spent. Not only that, as ...

Chief economist update: Weak household consumption now a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... pick up. To be sure, wages growth has improved from a record low of 1.9% in the third quarter of 2016 but at 2.3% (June quarter 2019), it remains just a fraction of the 4% annual growth rate experienced during the mid-noughties. Never mind that interest ...

Chief economist update: RBA rate cut outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... ABS report showed that headline inflation edged up to 1.6% in the year to the September quarter from 1.6% in the June quarter. The trimmed mean inflation measure steadied at 1.6% over the same period while the weighted median measure decelerated to 1.2% ...