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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 ...

Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... the first quarter US National Accounts showed the contribution from personal consumption expenditures to growth in March quarter dropped to just 0.6 percentage points from 2.8 pps in the December 2017 quarter. And if the latest indications from the University ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... was implemented only in January, so it doesn't explain the sharp deterioration in household spending in the March quarter, especially considering the continued solid and robust state of the labour market. The explanation lies in what CNBC claims ...