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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 ...

Chief economist update: Stuck in the very slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... The breakdown in the Wage Price Index report showed private sector wages growth slowed from 1.93% to 1.92% in the March quarter but public sector wages slowed by more - from 2.44% to 2.35%. Lacklustre wages growth would continue to dampen household spending ...

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... market expectations for growth of 1.4%, the fourth straight quarter of decelerating year-on-year growth since the March quarter of last year and the slowest rate of growth since the June 2012 quarter. Then again, in his post-meeting press conference ...

Regtech scores deal with US bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... executive of the bank run by supermarket giant Tesco. The ASX-listed regtech reported revenue of $480,000 for the March quarter, an increase of 6% over previous quarter. It also extended its data capabilities to countries including Russia and China. ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... quarter of 2017 to 1.1% in the March 2018 quarter. This was offset by a strong 7.3% jump in private investment in the March quarter that followed a 4.7% increase in the previous three-month period and inventories which added to 0.43 percentage points ...

Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... update to write home to mother about - or both. Australian headline CPI inflation increased by 1.9% in the year to March quarter - unchanged from the December 2017 quarter, slower than market expectations for an acceleration to 2.0% and still below the ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... to first quarter US GDP growth. Estimates show that consumer spending slowed to an annualised rate of 1.5% in the March quarter after the December 2017 quarter's strong 4% advance. Still, this represents the US consumers' resilience in the face of the ...