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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 ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... indicated by earlier stats on economic activity. US real GDP growth slowed to a an annualised rate of 0.5% in the March quarter - expectations were for a 0.7% print and the weakest growth rate since Q1 2014 -- from 1.4% in the final quarter of last year. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... Prices are dropping like flies. Following on from the disappointingly weak consumer price inflation report for the March quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest estimates on Australian external trade prices, the results ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... (down 10.0%) and fruit (down 11.1%) accounted for much of the 0.2% decline in headline consumer prices over the March quarter - the first quarter-on-quarter deflation since the December quarter of 2008. The ABS report showed that the decline was broad-based ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... 1.7%) and private consumption (down 0.3%). This took the economy's year-on-year growth rate down to 2.7% in the March quarter - the slowest pace since June 2015 (also at 2.7%) - from 3.1% in the previous quarter. The Bank of Korea (BOK) has recently ...

Future Fund keeps powder dry

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... cash on hand to take advantage when opportunities are more certain. Figures released in its recent update for the March quarter, show the $117 billion sovereign wealth fund has upped its cash weighting to 22.9% and decreased Australian equities to just ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... market expectations and was higher than the previous period but New Zealand's annual inflation rate of 0.4% in the March quarter (from 0.1% in the previous quarter) remains below the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's 1% - 3% inflation target range. The latest ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... landing in China's economy also now appears to be only that... fear. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.7% in the year to the March quarter - slower than the previous one's 6.8% but right smack on market expectations. More importantly, it's also smack on with ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... Japan's quarterly Tankan survey showed sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers dropped to a reading of 6 in the March quarter from 12 in the fourth quarter of last year and lower than consensus expectations for a reading of 9. The large non-manufacturing ...