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Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... virtually at these levels when the RBA last cut the official cash rate (from 1.75% to 1.50%) in August 2016. The June quarter CPI figures (available pre-RBA 2016 rate cut) were: headline at 1%; trimmed mean at 1.7% and weighted median at 1.3%. The one ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... the year to the December quarter, the fifth straight quarter of slowing GDP growth since the 1.7% recorded in the June quarter of 2017 and followed a downwardly revised 0.6% expansion in the previous quarter. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... largely remains resilient since the referendum. UK GDP growth has slowed only slightly from 1.7% in the year to the June quarter of 2016 to 1.5% in the September quarter of 2018 (latest available); the unemployment rate is at 4.1% (only a smidgen above ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... Household consumption's contribution to GDP growth declined to just 0.2% in the September quarter from 0.5% in the June quarter, and private investment subtracted 0.1 pps after recording no contribution in the previous quarter. Whatever growth in ...

Chief economist update: Bottom line slows down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... adjusted estimate of total company gross operating profits eased to 1.9% in the September quarter from 2.4% in the June quarter and 6.3% in the three-month period before that. The details of the report show that the slowing in total company profits was ...

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' ...