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Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... Australia's major trading partners had remained close to its long-run average, although growth had eased a little in the June quarter. The forecast for growth in 2015 and 2016 had been revised down slightly, but growth was expected to remain around its ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... area's three biggest economies all came in behind expectations. While growth in Germany quickened to 0.4% in the June quarter from 0.3% in the first, it was less than market expectations for growth of 0.5%. The French economy stagnated (0%) in the June ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... consistent with the recently published Employment Cost Index (ECI) that showed employment costs increased by 0.2% in the June quarter -- the slowest in the index's 33-year recorded history and is sharply lower than expectations for a 0.6% lift. Both ...

Advisers looking to offer MDA services

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... advice firms have signed an agreement with MGP this year to provide MDA services. Of those, six signed up in the June quarter alone. As a result MGP has grown funds under administration to $1.5 billion as at June 30, 2015. "These new services, along ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... 2000; 3.2% in the mid noughties; and 3.3% before the GFC before the jobless rate started to shoot up. Perhaps the June quarter ECI reading is just a fluke that would correct itself going forward. There had been relatively year-on-year increases in the ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... consumer spending - that which accounts for nearly 70% of the economy - increased by a larger-than-expected 2.9% in the June quarter, contributing 2 percentage point to growth, from 1.8% in the first three months of this year. September lift-off here ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... Cooperation Conference in Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release international trade price indexes for June quarter and building approvals numbers for June. In company news, Sunbeam kitchen appliance marketer GUD Holdings releases its ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... equities news, iiNet has a scheme meeting for a vote on the proposed TPG takeover, Atlas Iron is expected to release June quarter production results while Navitas' full year results are expected. In Australia, the market on Friday closed lower for a ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... tracking relative to policy objectives". Yes Virginia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) CPI report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... speak at an Anika Foundation event in Sydney. Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release the June quarter consumer price index while the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is also due out. In equities ...