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China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... and is the fastest rate of expansion since September quarter of 2015. The strong start to 2017 is backed up by other indicators. Non-farm fixed asset investment increased by 9.2% in the year to the March quarter, up from 8.1% in the January-February ...

CommInsure cleared of medical misconduct

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... financial services law. ASIC found that in previous financial years, some staff at the insurer had key performance indicators which included net loss ratios and income protection terminations rates. These KPIs have since been removed. Deloitte's independent ...

RBNZ on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has a positive view of the international economy - "Macroeconomic indicators in advanced economies have been positive over the past two months" -inflation - "Global headline inflation has increased... Core inflation ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... month although both conditions and confidence remain at above average levels... despite the pull-back, both of these indicators remain at levels consistent with solid business activity in the near-term, and are higher than through much of H2 2016." (NAB) ...

RBA zeroes in on balance sheets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
The strength and resilience of the banks' and household balance sheets - rather than indicators such as credit or rising house prices - are a key focus for the RBA, assistant governor Michele Bullock said. Bullock told this morning's Bloomberg address ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... the prudential regulator could control though is the threat from a collapse in the housing market. "...macrofinancial indicators underline the threat from the housing market, with house prices and related indicators (house indebtedness, bank size) pointing ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... 4.8%. The risk to these forecasts is to the upside - i.e. better than expected results given the improvement in other indicators in recent times - similar to the upside surprise in the January payrolls report. US employment increased by 227,000 in January ...

Help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... According to ANZ chief economist Felicity Emmett, the bounce in ANZ job ads, along with modest increases in other leading indicators, lends support to our view that although momentum in the labour market has slowed, it remains strong enough to underpin ...

Five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... December largely reflected unexpectedly strong improvements in some industries, which might not be sustained, while other indicators were generally mixed as well." This is because strong business conditions are not being reflected in the business confidence ...

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
The Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) -- derived from 19 labour market indicators covering "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers ...