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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 ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... August year. The same goes for businesses with the CBI business optimism index jumping to a reading of +13 in the March quarter from -11 in the previous three-month period (the highest level in one year) backed up by the latest IHS Markit/CIPS UK PMI ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... or one that's slowing to target as "commanded" by the Politburo. According to China Beige Book International, the March quarter survey found that manufacturing profit growth weaken from late 2017, investment cash flow softened and "weakness in the retail ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... the economy was also moving in the right direction in 2017 - GDP growth strengthened from 1.8% in the year to the March quarter to 2.9% in the September quarter (we'll get the December quarter update later today); the unemployment rate improved from ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... capital expenditure (capex) continued to slow before registering outright negative year-on-year growth from the March quarter of 2013 to the June quarter of this year. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update shows that Australian companies ...