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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 ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 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. Likewise, Eurozone ...

Managed fund allocations jump

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... quarter found that investment in managed funds (unitised trusts) by trustees rose by 5.10% to 28.19%, compared to the March quarter of 2015. This asset class is now the biggest for OneVue SMSF advice investors and also posted the largest rise over the ...

Australian wages grow slowest on record but real is better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
... remains positive -- thanks to low inflation. And though real wages have come down from the 1.0% annual rate in the March quarter of last year to 0.5% in the December quarter, they're far better than the negative real wages growth posted from the fourth ...

Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... missed falling into a technical recession with growth rising by 0.2% in the second quarter from negative 0.2% in the March quarter (after a strong 0.7% December quarter pace when the cap was still in place) - and inflation - the annual core inflation ...