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Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... instance, wages also grew at their fastest rate since 2009 in February but slowed over the next three months, the same in September of the same year. But this time maybe different. Stronger household consumption and consumer confidence would certainly ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... the three-month moving average in core retail spending sped up to 5.7% (year-on-year) in December 2017 from 4.2% in September of the same year. Retail spending would gain further impetus if the latest upward trend in core consumer price inflation gathers ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... repeat the events of 2010 when it raised interest rates when it raised interest rates by 25 bps each in June, July and September of that year from 0.25% to 1%. After a lag, headline inflation was brought back down from a high of 3.7% in May 2011 to a ...

McMillin exits TWUSuper again

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... first resigned from the position in January of 2013, succeeded by Debora Jackson. He then returned to the role in September of 2015, taking over from Paul Sayer. This is the second time Sandy has acted as interim chief executive, having also done so ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... solid state of the US housing market. Existing home sales jumped by 3.2% to an annualised rate of 5.47 million in September of 2016 - the highest level since June and beating expectations for an increase to 5.35 million, Sales of single-family houses ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... deteriorate. The level of new export business fell for the third straight month and to the greatest extent since September of last year. The performances of the main industry groups covered by the survey all remained lacklustre during April. Output growth ...

WTF moment on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... 500 earnings were expected to surge by 14.0% in the first quarter of 2015, revised down to an increase of 9.9% by September of the same year, tipped lower to a skip of 4.1% by end-December 2014, revised down to minus 1.6% at the start of this month and ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... than "one", is it not? This was enough to keep the price of iron ore falling down to US$79.80 - the lowest since September of five years ago - down by 41.3% from its price at the start of this year. This, in turn, has taken the S&P/ASX 200 Materials ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... since September 2012 - from 11.6% in May and the record high 12.0% in recorded in the seven months between March and September of last year. Right direction perhaps but there'll still be bumps along the way. Here, Putin could be the biggest bump. An ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... negative 1.3% in the March quarter.A Fed stopped QE2.A Growth slowed prompting the Fed to launch 'Operation Twist' in September of that year. Dateline September 2012:A 'Operation Twist' not sufficient to game growth, Fed launches QE3.A US economic growth ...