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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
Australia leading index The future's looking good for Australia. This is the indication from the latest reading of the Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity. The six month annualised growth rate in the index - "which indicates ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... rising inflation due to the pound sterling's depreciation, the UK's annual headline inflation rate sped up to 1.0% in September - the fastest rate since November 2014 -- from 0.6% in the previous month and greater than market expectations for a 0.9% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2016
... CPI inflation Final figures show that CPI inflation in the single currency region increased by 0.4% in the year to September -- double that of the previous month's 0.2% rate. The fastest inflation reading since October 2014 was driven by higher costs ...

AMP Capital acquires stake in desalination plant

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
AMP Capital has reached financial close to acquire a 5.2% stake in the Victorian Desalination Project (VDP) from Pacific Partnerships. Funded by the AMP Capital Community Infrastructure Fund (CommIF), VDP was delivered as a public private partnership ...

Oil's rally could slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
They were priced at US$26.01 and US$26.91 with Standard Chartered Bank even going on record predicting that prices could drop to US$10 before "money managers in the market conceded that matters had gone too far". These were the price of a barrel of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
US export and import prices The Fed's view that the negative impact of import prices on consumer price inflation would be easing appears to be in the money with the latest import price index showing continued improvement. Though less than the expected ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... figures from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show that total car sales jumped by 26.0% in the year to September - the fastest growth rate since January 2013 - following similarly strong increases of 24.2% in August and 23.0% in July. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Australia business confidence The latest NAB monthly business survey's business confidence index came in at +6 in September, unchanged from August and is consistent with its +6 long-term average. The business conditions index rose to +8 in September  ...

New BetaShares fund combats investor bias

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
BetaShares has launched a new Portfolio Diversifier ETF which excludes the largest 20 shares. The BetaShares Australian Ex-20 Portfolio Diversifier ETF is designed to track an index providing exposure to about 180 listed stocks on the ASX assessed by ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
Australia trade balance Australia's trade deficit narrowed by 5.0% to A$2.01 billion in August from A$2.12 billion in July (revised from A$2.41 billion), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show. This is better than market expectations for a ...