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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 ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... verging on the negative when adjusted for inflation). Household consumption contributed only 0.2 percentage points to March quarter GDP growth, down from 0.6 pps in the December 2017 quarter. Recent history also provides lessons for the impatient. The ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... show that property prices are coming off the boil. The eight capital cities weighted average fell by 0.7% in the March quarter after growing by 1% in the December quarter. Sydney residential property prices fell by 1.21% over the March quarter for its ...

Chief economist update: ECB cannot be any clearer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... annual HICP inflation projections sharply to 1.7% for both 2018 and 2019 (from 1.4% predicted for both years in the March quarter projections). Reflecting the "soft patch" in the first quarter of 2018 (that could continue in Q2 in "some countries") ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... inflation forecasts in the June quarter: 2018 GDP growth was revised higher to 2.8% (from 2.7% predicted in the March quarter) and unchanged at 2.4% in 2019, the unemployment rate was lowered to 3.6% for 2018 and 3.5% for 2019(from 3.8 and 3.6%) and ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... latest contraction in its economy. Preliminary estimates show that the country's real GDP contracted by 0.2% in the March quarter, more than reversing the 0.1% gain in the previous three-month period. Another quarter of negative GDP growth would bring ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed the economy expanded by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter, accelerating from the 2.4% in the previous quarter. This is higher than market expectations for a 2.8% expansion and (using ...