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Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... neutral stance. And for good reasons. It remains optimistic over the domestic growth outlook and still views the March quarter GDP growth slowdown as temporary: "Consumption growth remains subdued, reflecting slow growth in real wages and high levels ...

Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... not spending consumers... more so when their wages are sluggish. Total wages grew by only 1.9% in the year to the March quarter (think this is the slowest on record). Consumers aren't borrowing too (except for home purchases) with the RBA's private sector ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... suit...and soon. After all the Eurozone economy's gaining momentum. GDP growth accelerated to 1.9% in the year to the March quarter from 1.8% in the December 2016 quarter. Using the same measure, this is just a little below America's GDP growth of 2% ...

Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... showed the weighted average residential property price in Australia's eight capital cities slowed to 2.2% in the March quarter - in line with market expectations -- following a 4.1% increase in the December 2016 quarter. Only Canberra residential property ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... well. This is because while the Fed sees the first quarter slowdown - GDP slowed to an annualised 1.2% rate in the March quarter from 2.1% in the December quarter - as "transitory", and one that should provide an easy comparison when the second quarter ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... moving average shows business confidence steadily rising from a reading of +6 in the December quarter to +8 in the March quarter and +10 in April and May (two-month average). The business confidence index needs to drop to a reading of +3 (or 57.7%) next ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... products and services are shipped - provide cause for concern for Australian exporters. Japan's GDP grew by 0.3% in the March quarter, unchanged from the December 2016 quarter but sharply lower than the preliminary estimate of a 0.5% quarterly growth ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Australia's economic scorecard is out. GDP growth has plummeted to 0.3% in the March quarter compared to 1.1% last quarter, leaving economic annual growth at a lackluster 1.7%. Economic growth slowing by one third in past year adds to the pressure piling ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... the first quarter of this year. Yeah, 'twas good. Company gross operating profits increased by another 6.0% in the March quarter on top of the previous quarter's 20.1% surge. This beat market expectations for a 4.5% increase and takes the year-on-year ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... trigger. More so because the upward revision take the year-on-year rate expansion in the US economy up to 2.04% in the March quarter, representing an acceleration from the December 2016's 1.96% rate (instead of the deceleration to 1.92% in the first ...