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RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... 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 Orr believes that "downside risks to the growth outlook remain" ...

Chief economist update: Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... 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 admitted that growth has moderated ...

Chief economist update: Japan's sun shines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
Japan's economy grew 0.7% in the June quarter after contracting 0.2% in the March quarter. This is stronger than the Cabinet Office's preliminary estimate of 0.5% and is the fastest growth rate since the first quarter of last year (0.7%). This ...

Chief economist update: Look ma, inflation ate my wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... June quarter. This is at par with market expectations and a marginal acceleration from the 2% rate recorded in the March quarter. However, this masks the fact that the growth in nominal wages is being eaten up by inflation. Growth in real wages - nominal ...

Super fees outpace asset growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... fees is growing faster than the underlying assets being managed, latest research shows. Rainmaker Information's March quarter Benchmarking report shows members paid a total of $32 billion in super fees in the 12 months to 30 June 2018, rising 10% ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... quarter from 1.1% in the previous quarter with the core inflation measure accelerating to 1.1% from 0.9% in the March quarter. The August Monetary Policy Statement forecasts the headline CPI inflation rate to ease to 1.4% in the September quarter of ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... Price Index (WPI) report and portends that the June quarter would not be much different from the 2.1% growth in the March quarter. "...the latest HFCR data found nearly half of households (42%) still had the same income as a year ago, while a quarter ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... grew by 9.3% in the second quarter (from 3.6% in the first) while growth in imports slowed to 0.5% from 3.0% in the March quarter. However, inventories subtracted a sharp one percentage point to GDP. But this is actually good news for the coming quarter. ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... unchanged at 1.9% in the June quarter while the weighted median slowed to 1.9% in the second quarter from 2.1% in the March quarter. Both measures are below the lower range of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 2%-3% target band. Inflation would ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... uncertainty on Canadian investment and exports" would now have a larger impact. After slowing 2.3% in the year to the March quarter, the BOC expects GDP growth to "pick-up to 2.8% in the second quarter and a moderation to 1.5% in the third" for an "average ...