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Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
Houston, we're on target. The US Income and Outlays account released last Friday showed that US inflation as measured by the US Federal Reserve's favoured gauge - the core PCE price index - is now smack bang where the Fed wants it, rising by ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... would be unchanged from the second estimate's 2.2% rate. While the slight downward revision appears innocuous, it's a big downward shift from the December 2017 quarter's final estimate of 2.9% GDP growth and an even sharper slowdown from ...

Cryptocurrencies on radar but not priority: RBA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... followed developments in the crypto sphere for about five years. It works with other central banks as well as interacts with big and small entities active in cryptocurrency, according to RBA head of payments policy Tony Richards. But the bank's payments ...

Bank customer trust plummets: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... survey, the Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA) found less than half (47%) of the 1000 participants it canvassed trust the big four banks. Australians are more likely to trust building societies (15%), mutual banks (17%) and credit unions (18%) ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
They're no mere mortals, they're three of the 10 highly-qualified and esteemed experts at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) that currently sits as the CAMA RBA Shadow Board. They are Doctors Mark Crosby, Warwick McKibbin and ...

Dover exit renews self-licensing calls

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... from the licensee before Dover, and/or do other assessments of the person's competence." On the institutional side, with the big four banks largely unwinding their advice operations and AMP under increased scrutiny - IOOF declined to comment on its appetite ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... Philip Lowe: "It wouldn't take much for the financial markets combined with businesses waiting to turn this into a very big global event...What's happening is very disturbing. Can anyone think of a country that's made itself wealthier or ...

Aussie HNWI population grows: Capgemini

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
Latest research from digital consultant Capgemini shows Australia's high-net-worth individual (HNWI) population is growing, with more than 20,000 Aussies joining the fold in 2017. According to Capgemini's 2018 World Wealth Report, Australia's HNWI population ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
"In the current circumstances, members agreed that it was more likely that the next move in the cash rate would be up, rather than down." Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe declared this in many of his recent speeches, the statement was ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... forcing their respective central banks to raise interest rates - recall the central banks of Argentina and Turkey's recent big rate rises? - ultimately slowing growth in emerging economies. And then there's US trade protectionism. The high USD ...