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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... year, the growth in residential house prices slowed to 6.8% in the first quarter from 8.7% in the December 2015 quarter. German economic sentiment A big bounce in German economic sentiment. The ZEW indicator of economic sentiment for Germany surged by ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... 5.4% decline in the price of industrial goods. Germany producer prices As with South Korea - and may other countries - German producer prices continue fall (PPI had been negative since August 2013). An 8.0% drop in energy prices and a 2.3% decline in ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... are considering stepping up their abilities to hold physical cash. According to the Financial Times, unnamed sources at German bank Commerzbank say it is considering storing cash in vaults. Other reports say some savings banks in Bavaria have also explored ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... reported job losses and the scaling back of spending on goods for resale as operating margins remained under pressure. German retailers, on the other hand, reported the first improvement in gross margins in five-and-a-half years, in a sign of high street ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... by Serbia not being in the EU yet and therefore unaffected by trade sanctions in Russia, which has prompted Japanese and German companies to move manufacturing facilities there. This three-tiered approach, he continued, has driven a 6.34% return from ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... reading down to 50.8 - the lowest reading in three months and the second lowest since October 2013 - from 52.4 in April. German consumer confidence The GfK consumer survey showed the overall consumer climate indicator for Germany predicts a reading of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
US Richmond Fed manufacturing index The Richmond Fed manufacturing survey, like the Empire State and Philly Fed manufacturing surveys released before it, is considered second-tier and like them, the latest update indicated slowing manufacturing activity ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
It's May! Time to go away! Somehow I think the Australian equity market didn't get this memo. Like a thumb - not the sore one but the one in the OK sign - the All Ordinaries index stuck out with a 0.8% gain in the first week of May while most others ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
German business sentiment The Ifo business climate index for Germany dipped to a reading of 106.6 in April from 106.7 in the previous month, disappointing market expectations for an increase to 107.1. The current conditions component of the index also ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... Median prices for existing homes increased by 5.0% (US$222,700) in the month of March for a year-on-year rise of 5.7%. German producer prices A 9.2% drop in crude oil prices accounted for the 3.1% deflation in German producer prices in the year to March ...