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Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... to around US$65 a tonne in the midst of the global financial crisis -- China's GDP growth slowed to 6.2% in the March quarter of 2009 -- with the subsequent rebound to double/high digit growth sparking a concomitant bounce in the price of iron ore. China's ...

Life risk sales bounce back

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... research. DEXX&R's life analysis report for the June quarter shows that new business in the sector grew by 15% on the March quarter to $321 million. As reported in Financial Standard, this follows two quarters of falling sales - although DEXX&R's previous ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... hike in America would be like a pin prick had this land "girt by sea" been growing near trend. But at 2.3% in the March quarter (the latest available), the economy's operating at about 1% below trend growth. The latest update on private new capital expenditure ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... of Australia's population aged between 65-74, so it is pleasing that certain couples are almost reaching the ASFA March quarter 2015 standard for a comfortable lifestyle of $58,444 per annum," Rubinsztein said. The average single Australian is expected ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... mechanism" the RBI governor spoke about. Latest data show that the Indian economy expanded by 7.5% in the year to the March quarter, up from 6.6% in the last quarter of 2014. Yes, you got that right, India grew faster than China. This pace of expansion ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... ECI -- the broadest measure of employment cost - increased by a mere 0.2% in the second quarter from 0.7% in the March quarter. This is the slowest in the index's 33-year recorded history and is sharply lower than expectations for a 0.6% lift. The year-on-year ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... estimates for a 2.5% print but factor in the 0.8 percentage point upward revision (from minus 0.2% to plus 0.6%) in the March quarter - wonder if this was due to double seasonal adjustment? - and growth could have easily beaten expectations. The icing ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... Australia is due to release financial aggregates for June while the Housing Industry Association trades report for the March quarter is also due out. In equities news, Origin Energy and Paladin Energy June are expected to release quarterly production ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... - with each quarter's contraction deeper than the previous one. Russian real GDP declined by a hefty 1.3% in the March quarter and by 1.9% from a year ago. The EU's extension of sanctions against Russia - and Russia's extension of its sanctions vis-A ...

Life risk sales falling

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... Individual death, total permanent disability (TPD) and trauma insurance sales fell by 8% to $280 million in the March quarter, according to research by DEXX&R. DEXX&R's report notes that this time is "traditionally the slowest quarter" for insurance ...