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Roast Turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... through into the real economy and creates a vicious cycle. You know the drill.A Higher interest rates weakens consumer spending, lowers company profits, reduces business investment, raises unemployment, weakens consumer spending, slows growth, capital ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... for some time." Corporate profitability. Read that as higher corporate profits as labour costs grow less than consumer spending -- been growing around 4.5% this year. You want me to say it? Yes, this is again consistent with Janet's observation that ...

Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... interest rate reductions have only had a minimal effect on that which accounts for around 60% of the economy -- consumer spending. Despite still relatively low unemployment, improving consumer confidence, the wealth effect and record low interest rates ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... per cent in the 12 months to August, the fastest increase since March 2012. Retail sales, a key indicator of consumer spending, also beat expectations, rising 13.4 per cent in August compared with the same month last year. On the local market on Wednesday ...

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... better-than-expected manufacturing PMI readings in the same month). Domestically, just imagine the amount of consumer spending (60% of the economy) that could be generated once Australians decide to spend a portion of their 10.8% household savings back ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... was to say "of course" to my only girl among four children (yes four) - now you gentle readers know how much consumer spending my family contributes to the Australian economy). Indeed, rents have become so ridiculously expensive in Australia.A I gave ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower after disappointing consumer spending news helped pull US stocks lower in a quiet end to the market's worst month in more than a year. At 0805 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... rate of 2.5 per cent, faster than the original estimate of 1.7 per cent, the Commerce Department said. Stronger consumer spending and exports underpinned the pickup from the first quarter's sluggish 1.1 per cent pace, while imports grew more slowly than ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... is the largest consumer of Chinese goods. "If manufacturing is up in Europe it will flow into confidence and consumer spending. "This will eventually flow to the suppliers of China such as Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Australia." The Reserve Bank ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... early Friday after both encouraging and disappointing news on the economy was reported. An unexpected decline in consumer spending in April was offset by news that a measure of US consumer confidence jumped to the highest level in almost six years in ...