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Chief economist update: 'Paradox of Thrift' in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... - the Australian economy is slowly being boiled... to death. The latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey is case in point. Australian consumer sentiment declined by 1.7% in September to a reading of 98.2 in September - pessimists ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... day after the NAB Business Survey showed a sharp drop in business confidence in June, Westpac's Consumer Sentiment Survey - conducted in the week of July 1-5 (after the RBA's second rate cut on the 2nd and the passage of the Coalition's tax ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
... getting hired (why bother looking?). This pessimism is capture in the just-released Westpac-Melbourne consumer sentiment survey conducted in the week from 4 March to 8 March 2019 that showed consumer sentiment dropped to 98.8 in March from 103.8 in February. ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... employment, had been trending lower since August last year. The lead from the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey that shows the "unemployment expectations index" rising to a reading of 123.6 in January from 121 in December rounds out ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy now, Australian property will be cheaper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... housing demand conditions in coming months." Worse, the latest read from the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey showed the "Index of House Price Expectations fell 4.1% to 95.9 in January, marking a new cycle low and the weakest read ...

Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... 2.8 pps in the December 2017 quarter. And if the latest indications from the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey is any guide, it shall be so...i.e. weak. Consumer sentiment fell to 98.2 in June inched up from May's final reading of ...

Chief economist update: She'll be right, mate!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
"She'll be right, mate!" The latest business and consumer sentiment surveys illustrate the truism of this Australian idiom. Conducted from 16 February to 23 February 2018 - when the financial markets were in upheaval - the NAB business survey showed ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... (year-on-year rate) in December last year. The improvement fits with the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey that showed the unemployment expectations index dropping by 2.4% (consumers expect lower unemployment ) to a reading ...

Confidence up but will consumers shop?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... pessimists in this land girth by sea. This is the latest indication from the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey that showed the index jumping to a reading of 101.35 in October from 97.87 in September - itself, an improvement from th3 ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... consumer spending brought about by sluggish disposable income growth is further compounded by this month's consumer sentiment survey revealing that 23.5% of consumers prefer to "pay down debt". Should these conditions persist, nobody could kill Bill ...