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Chief economist update: Is the A$ becoming a safe-haven currency?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... higher inflation must depreciate to adjust for price growth differences. Australian core inflation was 1.3% in the June quarter, US core inflation was 2.4% (August). So are relative growth rates. While the IMF forecast the US to grow stronger (2.4%) ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... eased by stronger-than-expected monthly GDP growth figures. The report shows that after contracting by 0.2% in the June quarter, GDP grew by 0.4% in the month of July and 0.1% in August. While inflation has eased - headline CPI at 1.7% in the year to ...

Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... Japan's (BOJ) Tankan index - a measure of business confidence - for big manufacturers fall from a reading of +7 in the June quarter to +5 (the lowest reading in six years) in the third quarter provides little comfort for the Japanese central bank. ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... that it wasn't a "wonderful set of numbers". Instead, with economic growth slowing to 1.4% in the year to the June quarter - it was a woeful set of numbers, the slowest annual growth rate in 10 years. More disturbing, take away the 0.5 percentage ...

Chief economist update: The budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... offset by a 2.5% increase in equipment, plant & machinery. Year-on-year, actual total capex declined by 1.1% in the June quarter, an improvement from the first quarter's 1.7% contraction but a sharp downturn from 2018's average annual growth ...

Members shift to industry super funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... sector funds and industry funds, Rainmaker head of superannuation research Jason Ross said. Despite the fact that the June quarter was positive for financial markets given the ASX200 rose by 7.9%, Ross said retail funds only grew by 0.4% quarter on quarter. ...

Dividend payouts stagnate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... extending a five-year long trend, a global index shows. According to Janus Henderson, dividend payouts rose 5.7% in the June quarter, thanks mainly to QBE Insurance, which rewarded shareholders on the back of rebounding profits. Ben Lofthouse, head of ...

Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... from 5.25% in 2006 to 4.25% in 2007 was unable to prevent the US recession from the December quarter of 2007 to the June quarter of 2009. But perhaps, this time is different. The US unemployment rate is at near 49-year lows at 3.7% (July)... but it was ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... "Lucky Country" would make it to its 28th year recession-free economic performance (the last recession was in the June quarter of 1991) with us, Australians all, merely waiting for the June quarter 2019's official National Accounts report that's ...

Praemium FUA skyrockets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... competitive brokerage rates and provide clients the benefits that accrue from the aggregation and netting of trades. In the June quarter, for instance, the netting benefit represented an average 20% reduction in brokerage costs for investors." The firm ...