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Boring is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... found it, at a record low 1.5%...to this day. In a word, boring. But boring is good, for unlike the extreme volatility of the GFC days, there was little of that during his term (so far). The A$/US$ exchange rate has fluctuated from US$0.7484 (the day ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best levels since before the GFC (January 2008). But consumer moods are also tracking 2008 records...on the downside as observed by Westpac chief economist ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... strongly, up to a reading of 15 in July from 14 in the previous month. This is the highest level since January 2008 (before the GFC), and exactly three times its long-run average of five. Strong business conditions helped lift confidence among businesses ...

Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... income and savings. Gross disposable income growth eased to 1.8% in the year to the March 2017 quarter - the slowest since the GFC low of 1.8% (December 2009 quarter) from 2.7% in the previous quarter. Similarly, the household savings ratio has fallen ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... validates the improvement in global trade. After dropping to a record low reading of 290 in February 2016 - lower than the GFC bottom of 764 in December 2008 or that of the European debt crisis' 706 in February 2012 - the BDI climbed to 859 overnight. ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... business conditions surged from +11 in May to a reading of +15 in June. This is the highest reading since January 2008 (pre-GFC) boosted by increased profitability (to 15 in June from 10 in May) and trading conditions/sales (to 21 from 15). Profitability ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... Chinese inflation was loose at best right through 2006 but have become positively correlated since the years following the GFC. Inflation in the Eurozone showed the same pattern (which now also has China as its biggest source of imports (12%). Latest ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force" - remains at its lowest level since 2007 (pre-GFC) and represents a very sharp improvement from the peak 17.1% rate recorded in late 2009/early 2010. If these do not read high ...

EOFY: Super funds to hit double digit returns

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... fund returns for 2016-17 shows this will be the eighth consecutive year of positive returns with cumulative returns since the GFC breaking through 90%. SelectingSuper expects the buoyant investment returns could see more than one third of MySuper products ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... well. The spread's down to 29 basis points, less than half the recent high of 66 bps recorded in September last year and the GFC peak of 464 bps recorded in October 2008. This puts the Fed in a conundrum. Low levels of inflation and declining inflation ...