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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... November from the previous month's 1.4% annual rate. This is higher than market expectations for a pick-up to 1.6% and the fastest pace of consumer price rises since May's 2.0% rate. However, it remains below Bank Negara Malaysia's 2.5%-3.5% target for ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... by 1.5% in the week ended 17 December over the same week in the previous year. The latest growth figure is the second fastest year-on-year growth rate since the week ended 9 January this year and represented the The acceleration in the index indicates ...

Centrepoint sells funding business for $20m

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... in the financial advice market. He said: "Centrepoint will seek to strengthen and increase its position as one of the fastest-growing and most respected wealth advice companies in Australia. Some of the funds [from the sale] will be deployed to accelerate ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... year to November - accelerating from 10.0% in the previous month, beating market expectations for a 10.1% gain and is the fastest growth rate since December 2015's 11.0% growth rate - driven by increased sales in all categories. Industrial production ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... to higher commodity imports, particularly iron ore - following a 1.4% fall in the previous month. This represents the fastest growth since September 2014 and beat market expectations for a 1.3% decline. Japan GDP If you thought the preliminary estimate ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... recorded in September (0.4%) and August (0.1%). This is better than market expectations for a 0.8% increase and is the fastest monthly growth rate since August 2014. Year-on-year, retail sales expanded by 2.4% in October after recording growth of just ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... GDP growth to an annualised rate of 3.2% from the advance estimate of 2.9% and 1.4% in the second quarter. This is the fastest growth rate since the September quarter of 2014. US corporate profits (with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... quarter GDP growth to an annualised rate of 3.2% from the advance estimate of 2.9% and 1.4% in the second quarter. The fastest growth rate since the September quarter of 2014 (5.0%) was driven by higher contributions from consumer spending (1.89 percentage ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... in the year to the third quarter - unchanged from the preliminary estimate - from 2.1% in the June quarter. This is the fastest growth rate since the June quarter of last year underpinned by strong positive contributions from net external demand and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... construction work done dropped by 11.1% in the September quarter accelerating from the second quarter's 9.4% decline. This is the fastest rate of contraction since the 22.8% fall recorded in June 2001. The ANZ estimates that this would subtract around ...