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Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... derailed if the yen continues to appreciate. While the strengthening global economy suggests that demand for Japanese exports would not be impacted much by higher prices, it would weaken the price of Japanese imports that eventually will flow through ...

Same old same old from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... the back of highly accommodative financial conditions and underpinnings through the government's past stimulus measures. Exports are expected to continue their moderate increasing trend on the back of growth in overseas economies." However, inflation ...

Thinning trade surplus shaves A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... million positive trade balance in April this year. The sharp decline in the surplus was due to a combination of a fall in exports and higher imports. According to the ABS, "goods and services credits fell $903m (3%) to $31,871m. Non-rural goods fell ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... will continue growing at a robust pace. Business investment outside the housing and mining sectors will pick up, with exports boosted as new resource-sector capacity comes on stream. The strengthening labour market and household incomes will sustain ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... of C+I+G+ (X-M). Where C stands for household consumption; I for business investment; G for government spending ; X for exports; and, M for imports. Household consumption contributed more than half (1.62 percentage points) to the economy's 3.0% annualised ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... by 5.8% in the second quarter. These components all provided or no contributions to third quarter GDP growth. While net exports (0.5 percentage points) and inventories (0.2 pps) provided positive contributions to growth, they too offer not so good tidings. ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... EU -- £312 billion or 53.9% of total imports of goods and services - than it sells -- £236 billion or 43.1% of total exports. Still, the UK cannot just thumb its nose to its European trade partners because its exports to the EU account for a bigger ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... expectations for a US$39.5 billion outcome as growth in imports (up 17.2% in the year to October) outpaced the 6.9% increase in exports. More important for Sino-US bilateral trade relations, the surplus with America narrowed to US$26.6 billion in October ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... trade surplus doubled to A$1.8 billion in September from A$0.9 billion in the previous month, aided by a 3.0% increase in exports and zero import growth. Building approvals were also stronger - up for a second consecutive month by 1.5% in September after ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... British pound that's the major culprit. While the currency's weakness supports the UK's external sector by making its exports more competitive, its negative impact on domestic inflation is constraining domestic spending which is a bigger contributor ...