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Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... housing types and valuation segments". Home values for "all dwellings" in Australia increased in all of the country's six states and two territories in May, ranging from a 3.2% month-over-month surge in Hobart to a 1.1% appreciation in Perth. The ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... coronavirus infections in Victoria - and the consequent lockdown in the state and the threat of the infection seeping into other states - underscores the risk to Australia's rosy outlook. Then again, this has encouraged us, Australians all (well ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... supported by the quickening and expansion of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out and the massive fiscal stimulus in the United States. The OECD predicts global GDP to grow by 5.8% this year and by 4.4% in 2022. This compares with the 5.6% and 4.0%, respectively ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... Given these, there remains the possibility of the lockdown being extended in Victoria and/or the virus seeping into other states. But Australia is now in a better place compared with the lockdowns of days past. Although the Westpac-Melbourne Institute ...

Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... (long-term average is six). Further, the survey found that confidence improves in all industries and higher in all Australian states "except WA [Western Australia], which was flat. "Oh, and more, much more than this" the outlook points to continued ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... changing landscape is creating geopolitical tensions. Ashley Townshend, director of foreign policy and defence at United States Studies Centre said the US is playing catchup when it comes to China, applying progressively aggressive policy in response ...

Budget to boost home ownership rates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... build or purchase a newly built home with a deposit of as little as 5%. An additional $124.7 million will also be given to states and territories to bolster public housing stocks. "The government understands the importance of owning your own home and ...

Super fund advice not useful: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... event. About one third of respondents of all age groups expect to continue to work part-time during retirement, the research states. Further, about 7% of respondents said they don't ever expect to retire. Their biggest concern for retirement is the inability ...

Farmland value grows in all states

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
For the first time since 2005, every single state in Australia saw the price of farmland increase. The median price per hectare of Australian farmland increased by 12.9%, with the nation enjoying its seventh consecutive year of farmland value growth. ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... into local currency. The bad. Australia would be forced to compete for the higher interest rates offered in the United States. As we've witnessed over the past few months, Australian bond yields (and those of other major economies) have risen in ...