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Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... inflation. A longstanding belief of consumers is that trade with other countries results in a broader range of available goods at lower prices. When asked in a recent survey about their views on international trade, two-thirds of consumers thought that ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... 1.7% increase in the last quarter of 2017. X-Y. This is the biggest contributor to March quarter GDP growth. Exports of goods and services rebounded by 2.4% in March after the previous quarter's 1.5% decline while growth in imports slowed to 0.5% ...

Magellan launches retail Australian equities fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
Magellan's acquisition of Airlie Funds Management has led to the latter launching its Australian equities fund to retail investors for the first time. The Airlie Australian Share Fund holds a concentrated portfolio of 15-35 Australian listed companies. ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... to the United States, said it would apply counter-tariffs of 25% and 10% on $16.6 billion worth of American metals, farm goods and other products, to take effect July 1. "Mexico responded to the news by announcing immediate retaliatory tariffs on US ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... happen. Trump could either go back on his words that he likes a strong dollar, or raise and expand tariffs on American-made goods and services some more. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as ...

FinTech Australia appoints former Uber policy head

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... ridesharing. Before Uber, Kitschke was head of public policy at Vodafone Australia sd executive director of the Australian Sporting Goods Association. Commenting on his new role, he said: "It is a tremendous honour to be able to lead an organisation ...

Trustee services provider appoints new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
A trustee business linked to several of Australia's newest superannuation funds has appointed a new non-executive chair. Sargon Capital, which operates in Australia via Trustee Partners, appointed Robert Rankin as its new chair, joining new non-executive ...

Chief economist update: Talking trade tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... deficit with China decreased by 11.6% to US$25.9 billion from 29.3 billion in February as China bought 26.3% more of US goods and services while selling 2.1% less to the US.

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... result in a faster pick-up in economic activity and inflation than currently forecast. A depreciating A$ would make foreign goods and services more expensive - encouraging Australians, all, to buy local instead - and overseas holidays more costly - prompting ...

Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... sectors, in retail, sales, manufacturing, services, in construction. Then we had declines in industrial production, in capital goods production. The PMI in exports orders also declined. Also we had declines in national business and confidence indicators. ...