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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... year ago' decreased by 3.8%. The one component that recorded an increase was the sub-index for 'time to buy a major household item' - up 1.0% over the month. Separate indices for housing and employment registered mixed readings. The 'time to buy a dwelling' ...

Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... correction or burst, QIC sees a period of flat lining prices with pockets of weaknesses, such as inner city apartments in some capital cities and some mining regions. Speaking with Financial Standard, Philip Miall, head of credit research and strategy ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... consecutive months of deterioration. The Bank of Korea's March survey showed that South Koreans expect an improvement in their household income and general livelihood over the next six months.

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... "...labor market conditions have improved substantially" and "there is still room for further sustainable improvement." "Household spending has been supported by steady job gains and solid growth in real disposable income--aided in part by the declines ...

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... continued. "However, the structural shift into lower-paid jobs will continue to weigh on wages and through that, on household consumption, which remains the largest component of GDP." Against that backdrop the investment specialist said the RBA is unlikely ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... at the end of September. Thanks to the 1.5 percentage point contribution from net exports (exports minus imports) and household consumption's 0.4 pp add (up from 0.3 pp contribution in the second quarter). GDP is not made up of business investments alone. ...

Robo revolution to benefit human advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
Digital advice tools should be seen as an opportunity, not a threat for the traditional advice market in the United States, according to the UB-based global analytics firm Cerulli Associates. "Many industry stakeholders assume that ongoing advances ...

The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... simply irresponsible across the board to have debt on the balance sheet," Sicilia said. "Emotive examples likening a household's inability to live within their means, likening that to government borrowing for economic growth are farther than ideology ...

BlackRock likes Japan, Europe

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) increasing domestic equities exposure to 25%. Estes added that at the household level, Japanese held 56% of their assets in cash - equivalent to US$9 trillion - and there has been an attempt to create ...