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Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
It's the first Tuesday of November - the time when the "Melbourne Cup" runs and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets only a few hours apart. All bets are on! There are so many odds on the various horses running in the Cup but there's only ...

Chief economist update: The grass is paler on the China side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
Just as expected, the Fed's 31 July-1 August meeting was a non-event - keeping the fed funds rate unchanged at 1.75%-20% - but it did give the US central bank a platform to gloat about the US economy. "Information received since the Federal Open ...

Super fund chair appointed to NSW Generations Fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... reinforcing the state's capabilities and keeping it on the front foot. "Walters will provide fresh and innovative economic analysis, strengthening our ability to manage economic challenges from both home and abroad," Mr Perrottet said. Walters said ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
They're no mere mortals, they're three of the 10 highly-qualified and esteemed experts at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) that currently sits as the CAMA RBA Shadow Board. They are Doctors Mark Crosby, Warwick McKibbin and ...

Chief economist update: Talking trade tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... external account is improving and this could help temper tensions between the opposing sides. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reports that the US trade deficit narrowed to US$49 billion in March from US$57.7 billion in the previous month. The ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... 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 of 2017, after increasing ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... the previous quarter. This is at odds with buoyant consumer sentiment surveys and underscores the Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) problem with seasonal adjustment (first quarter scores have been unusually low in recent times). But even if we take ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... released before the payrolls report made this moot, employment after all is a lagging indicator. The Bureau of Economic Analysis upgraded US third quarter GDP growth to an annualised rate of 3.2% from the advance estimate of 2.9% and 1.4% in the second ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... Today's data releases out of the US all but strengthens expectations for a December Fed rate hike. The Bureau of Economic Analysis upgraded US third quarter GDP growth to an annualised rate of 3.2% from the advance estimate of 2.9% and 1.4% in the second ...

New head of economics at ANZ

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
ANZ has appointed a new head of Australian economics. Based in Sydney, David Plank will join ANZ in February 2017, reporting to ANZ chief economist Richard Yetsenga. Plank joins ANZ from Deutsche Bank, where he was head of fixed income and credit research ...