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British inflation quickens but still off-target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
... 1.8% in the year to January from 1.6% in the previous month. While lower than the expected 1.9% increase, this is the fastest gain in consumer prices since June 2014. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), "The latest rise in CPI was ...

Mexican pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... prices - and the government's 20% increase in gasoline prices - had lifted the country's inflation rate to 4.7% -- the fastest since September 2012 and from 3.4% in the previous month. This is the seventh straight month of accelerating inflation and ...

Sunny days not expected to last

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... offsetting the previous month's 5.1% decline. This is more than double market expectations for a 3.1% pick-up and is the fastest rate of increase in six months. The details of the report were also sun-shiny ones. Orders from the manufacturing sector ...

Buying American

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... shipped more than it bought. Exports jumped by 2.7% to US$190.7 billion - the highest amount since April 2015 and the fastest monthly increase since September 2012 - in December following a 0.2% dip in the previous month. This, despite the rally in the ...

HUB24 the fastest growing platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
HUB24 signed 10 new distribution agreements and welcomed 47 advisers to its platform over the December quarter as it continues an impressive growth strategy. The platform's quarterly business update showed a $1.8 billion (75%) surge in funds under administration ...

Help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... the previous month. Over the past 12 months, growth in job advertisements quickened to 7.1% from 3.7% in December - the fastest pace since August 2016. According to ANZ chief economist Felicity Emmett, the bounce in ANZ job ads, along with modest increases ...

Fund manager launches new IMA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... tailwinds driving technology and automation and the amount that corporations and individuals rely on it, technology is the fastest growing sector globally." TAMIM Asset Management is a Sydney-based boutique fund manager for wholesale investors established ...

Heading the ECB's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... expanded by 0.5% in the fourth quarter, quicker than the third quarter's 0.4% pace and expectations for the same and he fastest quarterly growth rate since the March quarter of last year. This took the year-on-year growth rate up to 1.8%, the same as ...

A bump up in credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... Australia's private sector credit report. Total private sector credit increased by 0.7% in the month of December - the fastest monthly growth rate since September 2015 -- accelerating from November's 0.5% gain and beating market expectations. In year-on-year ...

Sunrise sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... highest level since March 2014, boosted by strong expansions in output and new orders - new export orders rose at their fastest pace in over a year - gains in employment and the newly-launched "business expectations index" hitting a 44-month high This ...