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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... and surveys of consumers and businesses". Japan consumer confidence Japanese consumer confidence posted a 40.8 reading in April - slightly better than market expectations for a 40.7 print but substantially lower than the previous month's 41.7 reading. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
Australia retail sales ABS data released yesterday gave meat to the RBA's statement after its 3 May Board meeting that, "In Australia, the available information suggests that the economy is continuing to rebalance following the mining investment boom" ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Uh-oh! Don't know if you noticed but most equity markets around the world finished in the red heading into and up to the end of April. The raison d'Aatre, the source of angst, the trigger for the sell orders all pointed to the disappointment over the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Australia export and import prices Prices are dropping like flies. Following on from the disappointingly weak consumer price inflation report for the March quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest estimates on Australian ...

ASIC bans ex-NAB planner from the industry

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
ASIC has permanently banned a former NAB adviser. Hardik Bhimani was a senior financial planning manager, then a senior financial planner, with NAB Financial Planning from April 2011 to November 2014. It was during this period that ASIC has now accused ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... the index rose to 116.4 this month from 114.9 in March, the component measuring expectations dropped from 83.6 to 79.3 in April - the lowest level since November 2013. The Conference Board's measure is in line with the decline in confidence reported ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... continued negative inflation this year prompted the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) decision to ease policy on 14 April -- setting the rate of appreciation of the Singapore dollar NEER policy band at zero percent (the first time since October ...

New JBWere chairman named

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
Andrew Hagger, group executive National Australia Bank (NAB) Wealth has been appointed chairman of JBWere, effective from 21 April 2016. Hagger will replace former NAB group executive, finance and strategy, Craig Drummond, who held the role for over ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
ECB policy decision As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept monetary policy unchanged - repo rate at 0%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25%; deposit facility rate at minus 0.4%; monthly purchases at €80 billion - at its 21 April meeting. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
RBA meeting minutes The A$ broke above US$0.78, trading as high as US$0.7826 overnight and is currently fetching US$0.7805 - a 13.7% appreciation from this year's US$0.6864. The minutes of the RBA's 5 April Board meeting - the local unit was trading ...