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Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... increases - one that's captured in the latest NAB survey which showed a deceleration in labour costs and the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) wage price index that remained at a record low 1.9% in the year to the March quarter (the ABS will release ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... deflator for personal consumption eased to 1.6% in the year to the June quarter from 2% in March. Moreover, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA): "Prices of goods and services purchased by US residents increased 0.8% in the second quarter ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... "delivering Australians an average rate of inflation over time of between two and 3%." This is underscored by the Australian Bureau of Statistics'(ABS) latest update on the country's import prices. The import price index fell by 0.1% in the June quarter ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... expecting a Bank of England rate rise in the next six months (27%) falls to lowest since October 2016." The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release the June quarter CPI inflation report later today. The actual figures would affirm (if higher ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... pressure on inflation. The Canadian dollar's appreciation since the rate hike could produce the same thing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release the consumer price index report for the June quarter this coming Wednesday - one that would ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... seemingly hawkish turn the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) conveyed in the minutes of its 4 July board meeting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported total employment grew by 14,000 in June. This was lower than market expectations for a ...

Aussie agriculture reaches new highs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Agriculture Census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlights opportunities for institutional investors as the total value of Australia's agriculture production continues to rise. During 2015-16, the gross value of Australian agriculture ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... 7.8% of total US imports. But that was using 2001 trade numbers. Fast forward to the present and by 2016, the US Census Bureau had US imports of goods and services from China at 17.1% of total - more than its historical biggest trading partners Canada ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... months. Perhaps more telling, despite rising to 8.6% in June (from 8.4% in May), the U-6 unemployment rate - which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as: "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total ...

Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... positive for the domestic equity market is the improving outlook for Australia's biggest export market - China. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that China's manufacturing PMI rebounded to a reading of 51.7 in June after slowing to 51.2 ...