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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 ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... the BOE reacted to changed developments in the UK economy. UK GDP growth slowed to an annual rate of 1.2% in the March quarter from 1.4% in the year to the December 2017 quarter. This is the slowest growth rate since the June 2012 quarter and marked ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... profits. This could help explain the lower than expected increase in Australian private new capital expenditure in the March quarter of this year (Trump officially declared "war" on March 1 when he announced that "sometime next week, we'll be signing" ...

Chief economist update: Forget asking for a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... sluggishness in wage growth (released just the day before) - the wage price index increased by 2.1% in the year to the March quarter, unchanged from the same rate in the December and September quarters of last year - as well as indicating continued tepid ...

Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... quarters of expansion is no more. Preliminary estimates show 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 ...