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Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... November - down from 102.9% in the previous month, below market expectations of 102.3 and the third straight month of sequential decline. The gauge of current conditions fell to 105.4 in November from 106.1 in October but more worrying, the business ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... nine-month low of 4.4% in the previous quarter ended five straight quarters of falling jobless rate. The sharp and sequential erosion in business confidence since January this year (-19 reading) to a nine month low -44.9 in July suggests continued upward ...

Insto investment committees step away from status quo

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
QSuper and TCorp believe sequential investment models at large asset owners are past their used-by date and investment committees must be delegating day-to-day investment decisions. The two institutional investors use what is known as the total portfolio ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
There wasn't really anything earth-shattering in US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress overnight where she discussed 'The Current Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy'. Growth is gaining ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... steady at 1.7%), it eased to 1.71% in June from 1.74% in May - the slowest since February 2015 and the fifth month of sequential deceleration since January's 2.3 year-on-year rate. Suddenly, low inflation is looking less "transitory" as Janet Yellen ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... Average weekly earnings (excluding bonuses) slowed to 1.7% in the year to April - marking the fifth straight month of sequential deceleration from the 2.7% annual rate recorded in November 2016. This explains the recent softening in retail spending - ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... growth inched up from 4.9% in the year to April to 5% last month. While this put a stop to the four straight month of sequential year-on-year slowing, the details aren't likely to please the RBA and APRA. This is because the report shows that the small ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... fell by 1.2 points to a reading of 96.2 in June from 98.0 in the previous month, marking the third straight month of sequential declines and the seventh straight month that pessimistic consumers outnumbered optimists (below 100). How long could business ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... spending. Latest data showed that US core retail sales growth slowed to 4.5% in the year to April, the third month of sequential decline since the 5.4% expansion recorded in January this year. The lead from the Conference Board's consumer confidence ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... credit growth slowed to 4.9% in the year to April from 5% in the previous month, marking the fourth straight month of sequential year-on-year slowing. Still not bad but not when you consider that the rate of slowdown had been slowed only by continued ...