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US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... April from 1.6% in March. More so, given declining inflation expectations - 10-year nominal/TIPS yield differential has fallen to 1.8% from 1.91% at the end of April and 1.94% at the start of 2017. Five-year yield differential's down to 1.73% from 1.81% ...

Global asset management fees continue to fall

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
Funds management fees have fallen globally across several asset classes amid rising competition from cheaper products and greater scrutiny by investors looking to cut costs. The latest bfinance report examines the fees of more than 160 money managers ...

Approved to build more dwellings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... trend measures indicate otherwise. While the "trend estimate for private sector houses approved fell 0.2% in April and has fallen for 13 months", "The trend estimate for total dwellings approved rose 0.1% in April and has risen for three months" and ...

Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... On the bright side, the weighted interest rate Australia is paying for its record breaking level of outstanding debt has fallen from 4.4% in 2013 to 3% in 2017, which is the rate the government expects to pay for the next three years. Nevertheless, the ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... inflation. The recent increase in headline inflation means that real wages growth (using December quarter wages figure) have fallen to a negative 0.3% from an already low, but positive 0.4%. My calculations show that wages have to grow by 2.5% in the ...

RBA zeroes in on balance sheets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... think prices will always rise?" Bullock noted that the proportion of loans that are high loan-to-valuation ratios have fallen, which is something "positive," indicating more resilience in balance sheets. "We're seeing things pick up again and that's ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... reverse their upward trend. Brent oil prices have slumped by 8.8% from their 2017 highs while the price of WTI oil has fallen by 11.0%. Not surprisingly, 10-year and five-year inflation expectations - as measured by the yield difference between nominal ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... (at different venues) last week as did Fed VP Stanley Fischer just this weekend. Financial markets would have risen or fallen depending on the interpretation of every word Fedspoken. But that was the world before Trump. I'm not so familiar with US politics ...

Dwindling reserves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... decline, falling by US$12.3 billion in January to US$2.988 trillion - the first time since February 2011 that reserves had fallen below the important psychological threshold of US$3 trillion. Though this represented a slowing in the pace of decline - ...

Strong SMSFs bridging gender super gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... improved, with the ratio now 53:47 male to female. The average age of members and trustees of newly-established SMSFs has fallen from 59 to 48. Managing director and chief executive of the SMSF Association, Andrea Slattery, said this is indicative of ...