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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... month. The latest GDP growth outcome won't help much. The Singapore economy expanded by 1.8% in the year to the March quarter, the same annual growth rate recorded in the previous two quarters. The quarter-on-quarter growth rate shows the economy grew ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... administration is going out with a bang. Economic growth in the Philippines quickened to 6.9% in the year to the March quarter from the previous quarter's 6.5% rate. This is higher than market expectations for annual growth of 6.6% and takes the growth ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... those in the public sector remained unchanged at 0.5%. Year-on-year, growth in total wages slowed to 2.1% in the March quarter from 2.2% in the last quarter of 2015; wages in the private sector eased to 1.9% from 2.0% over the same period; public sector ...

Life insurance balancing APRA priorities with increased profit

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... profit, which increased overall by 16.9% to $3 billion in the year to March 2016, has been risk products. Based on the March quarter stats, net profit after tax for these products was $378 million; and individual lump sum risk contributed the majority ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... first quarter after registering a 1.2% increase in Q4 2015. Year-on-year, Japanese real GDP declined by 0.1% in the March quarter of this year following expansions of 0.9% in the December quarter and 1.8% in the September quarter.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... 3 May Board meeting following "information showing inflationary pressures are lower than expected". To be sure, March quarter CPI inflation measures - headline (1.3%), trimmed mean (1.7%), weighted median (1.4%) - all came in below expectations and moved ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... rates further in August "after it has had time to further analyse the inflation trends in the June quarter and the March quarter national accounts". Brazil retail sales It's been a commonly accepted observation that the Olympics boost the economy of ...

SMSFs have cash top of mind

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... listed shares. OneVue said investment in cash and term deposits by SMSF investors increased by 2.7% to 19.9% in the March quarter of 2016, compared to the December quarter of last year. It is the biggest quarterly jump for this asset class in OneVue ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... GDP contracting over the past three quarters: September quarter 2015 (-0.8 YOY), December quarter 2015 (-0.5%), March quarter 2016 (-0.8%).

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... official cash rate to a record low 1.75% on the 3rd of May following the "shock" domestic inflation numbers for the March quarter. Not only this, the Australian central bank's Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) released at the end of the week sparked ...