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NSW government pins fintech job hopes to H2 Ventures

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... chair Anne O'Donnell, and former Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy. H2Ocean was forced to pull their ASX float in October 2016 after they failed to raise minimum subscriptions levels. Founding Partner of H2 Ventures Ben Heap said the support of ...

Tax breaks drive China car sales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... full-year 2016 - the fastest since 2013. Car sales in China have been rising since the introduction of the tax break in October 2015. But with the incentive removed on 31 December 2016, chances are auto purchases would stall as what happened when America's ...

AFA returning to its roots

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... Connect Tour has been largely designed by advisers and the same can be expected of the national roadshows mid-year and October's national adviser conference on the Gold Coast. "We want to ensure that membership engagement at the grassroots level is not ...

The UK's still OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... of the maintenance period in the oil and gas industries that saw their respective outputs contract by 1.1% and 1.0% in October. The actual data surprised on the upside: industrial production jumped by 2.1% in the month of November for a year-on-year ...

Slack Eurozone labour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The Eurozone's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.8% in November from October. This is in line with market expectations, the lowest in seven years (September 2009) and an improvement from the 10.5% rate recorded in the same month a year earlier. ...

Offline Australian retail sales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... expectations for a 0.4% gain that's for sure. This slowed the annual growth rate in retail spending to 3.3% from 3.5% in October. But I wonder whether Australians' increasing take-up of online shopping is skewing the Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

Super changes spark engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... months of 2016. Voluntary contributions to FirstChoice Super rose sharply in November, up 25% on contributions made in October, and about 20% higher than November 2015. Colonial First State general manager of product and investments Peter Chun said the ...

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... less than expected 156K in December (though this was offset by an upward revision that added an extra 19K employed in October and November) and the unemployment rate inching up to 4.7% from 4.6%. However, I agree with Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart's ...

Australia housing boom busting?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... surge in private sector dwellings excluding houses - units - which are notoriously volatile that followed a 24.0% slump in October (see what I mean). The more stable ABS trend measure shows this category declining by 5.7% in November for its sixth straight ...

Australia construction activity eases contraction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... climbed to 47.0 points in December, continuing its improvement from 46.6 in November and a seven-month low of 45.9 in October. All four sectors remained in contraction in December: House building (down 1.6 points to 45.6); Apartments construction (up ...