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Chief economist update: The virus, the trade deal and the AUD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... by 2021 - due to the lockdown and stoppages in Chinese business operations that's certain to slow overall economic activity. The easing of trade tensions will serve as a "serum" to the current downdraft wrought by the coronavirus. Even better, expectations ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 could hit Australia with triple whammy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... system, the coronavirus - renamed COVID-19 - has forced China into lockdown and slowed, if not completely frozen, economic activity in the country. But even without the government-mandated lockdown, consumers are staying home on their own volition for ...

Retirement funding system failing: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... unlocking home equity to improve retirement funding, we can enhance both the quality of life in retirement and economic activity." Household Capital made several recommendations to the Retirement Income Review including incentivising older Australians ...

Chief economist update: It's a holiday for the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... Committee judges that the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate to support sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation returning to the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective," it said. But ...

VanEck launches new income product

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... which will force them to move up the risk curve," Neiron said. VanEck said that several factors are holding back economic activity in Australia, keeping interest rates low. "Both household-debt-to-income and house-prices-to-income ratios are very high. ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... government is encouraging households to borrow and spend - interest rates are at record lows after all - to boost economic activity and growth. But with household debt running at 191.1% of disposable income (June quarter 2019), further interest rate ...

Chief economist update: Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Morrison government to do more to reverse the slowing momentum in economic activity in this 'Lucky Country', but I'm starting to change my tune. Yes Virginia, I'm still scouring through the ...

The AUD is key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... of domestically produced goods and services relative to goods and services produced overseas. "The pick-up in economic activity lowers the unemployment rate by around 0.4 percentage points to 41/2 per cent and raises year-ended trimmed mean inflation ...

Chief economist update: The A$ will answer the question of how much more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2019
... on 0.75% cash rate - and waiting - for the lagged effects of this lowered interest rate to flow through into economic activity. Then again, look at the fine print, footnote (a) - the technical assumptions "include the cash rate moving in line with market ...

Chief economist update: When QE is not QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... thus should have little if any effect on household and business spending decisions and the overall level of economic activity. These purchases are purely technical operations aimed at maintaining reserves in the banking system at an ample level that ...