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Chief economist update: iPhone and Black Friday sales ring up retail registers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... "Black Friday and iPhone X sales drive 1.2 per cent rise". "In seasonally adjusted terms, rises were led by the household goods (4.5 per cent) and other retailing (2.2 per cent) industries... Seasonally adjusted sales in both these industries are influenced ...

Global online trading firm rolls out bitcoin derivatives in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... are investing in cryptocurrency itself, but it remains to be seen if people will open their digital wallets to purchase goods and services, or transfer to family and friends. ASIC warns the exchange platforms where virtual currencies are bought and sold ...

Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... the US economy. This Trump's infrastructure spending where he promised to "invest $550 billion to ensure we can export our goods and move our people faster and safer". This, along with the tax cuts, would go a long way into making his campaign pledge ...

Thinning trade surplus shaves A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... trade surplus to narrow in October but not by this much. The Australian Bureau of Statistics'(ABS) 'International Trade in Goods and Services report showed that the country's trade surplus dropped to just A$105 million in October from A$1.6 billion in ...

Retailers should be wary of Amazon: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... store will branch out of books and apps, which it currently offers on its Australian website, and offer a full suite of goods. Australian fintech Avoka said financial services will be the next industry in the firing line. "When Australian consumers start ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... signalled expansion for 21 consecutive months. Business conditions improved across the consumer, intermediate and investment goods sectors. The strongest expansion was signalled at intermediate goods producers and the slowest in the consumer goods category." ...

Fund managers should have personal stake: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... launched this month, invests in Australian companies such as Viva Energy, Bunnings and producers and distributors of small-goods including Hans and Primo. The tenants have average lease term of 9.2 years. Harrison said in US listed markets, the consumer ...

The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... should inflation expectations continue to recede, consumers are bound to defer spending on expectations that the price of goods and services will be lower tomorrow than they are today.

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... for its consumers are spending. In Economics 101, we were taught that gross domestic product (GDP) - the value of final goods and services produced in a country at a given time - is derived by the summation of C+I+G+ (X-M). Where C stands for household ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... UK-EU trade (published on 7 November) shows that, the UK buys more from the EU -- £312 billion or 53.9% of total imports of goods and services - than it sells -- £236 billion or 43.1% of total exports. Still, the UK cannot just thumb its nose to its ...