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Chief economist update: Faster wages growth a one-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... September quarter. This is at par with market expectations and an acceleration from the 2.1% rate recorded in the June quarter. Private sector wages grew by 2.14% in the year to the third quarter, up a fraction from 2.07 in the second. Public servants' ...

Chief economist update: As safe as Australian houses?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... Index' report showed the weighted average of eight capital cities house prices fell by 0.6% in the year to the June quarter (latest available) after growing 2% in the previous quarter. More up-to-date figures show home values continue to cheapen. ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... the ABS, Australia's annual headline inflation rate weakened to 1.9% in the September quarter from 2.1% in the June quarter. The average of the core measures - weighted median and trimmed mean - was unchanged at 1.75% but only because the June quarter's ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... annual growth rate down to 1.7% in the year to the third quarter - the slowest in exactly two years - from 2.2% in the June quarter and 2.4% in the first quarter of this year. The sharp slowdown in the Eurozone economy should trigger another downgrade ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... 2.57 pps in the second quarter) as growth in household spending accelerated from an annualised rate of 3.8% in the June quarter to 4% in the September quarter. To be sure, Trump's tax cuts are now working its way into the US economy, lifting consumers' ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... measure of inflation - the core PCE price index - is for an easing to 1.8% in the September quarter from 2.1% in the June quarter. These suggest that the Fed's previous rate hikes (along with the shrinking of its balance sheet) are already bearing ...

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... Accounts on hand, the RBA had to underscore the latest result showing that the economy grew by 3.4% in the year to the June quarter, for it justifies its central forecast "for growth to average a bit above 3 per cent in 2018 and 2019." The rest are virtually ...

RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... "The direction of our next OCR move could be up or down". While New Zealand's economic growth has lifted in the June quarter - to a quarterly rate of 1.0% from 0.5% in the March quarter; 2.8% year-on-year from 2.6% in the first quarter - governor ...

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... Of this, direct property took the biggest hit having climbed to 16.2% last quarter before dropping to 15.3% in the June quarter. However, direct property holders utilising limited recourse borrowing arrangements has grown to 42.1% with the average property ...

Chief economist update: Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... 1.7% in 2020. Since the ECB's last outing in July, the Eurozone's economic growth has slowed to 2.1% in the June quarter from 2.4% in the March quarter." However, ECB President Mario Draghi has already pencilled this in. In his July Q&A, Draghi ...