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China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... expansion in China's manufacturing sector and suggesting a weak start to the second quarter. China's official National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) manufacturing PMI fell to a reading of 51.2 in April from 51.8 in March. While this marked the 9th consecutive ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... quarter from 3.5% in 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). ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... for everyone - hawks, doves and in-betweeners - in terms of RBA monetary policy direction. This is because the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index's latest report confirms whatever bias you have on the outlook for interest rates ...

Super wealth reaches record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... wealth Australians hold in superannuation is climbing to a record high, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. At the end of December 2016, Australians held $2.6 trillion of household net worth in superannuation; up ...

Let me down gently

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... Michele Bullock when she warned of the property market becoming a trigger for financial stability in Australia. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) housing finance figures showed that the value of total dwelling commitments (excluding alterations and ...

Not as good as the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... second biggest Australian trade surplus on record, that is. Us, Australians all, should be rejoicing at the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report that the country's international trade surplus widened by 138% to A$3.57 billion in February from ...

RBA dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... - apart from the housing market - have been coming in on the weak side of expectations. Only yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that retail sales fell by 0.1% in February, far below expectations for a 0.3% gain ...

Finance and insurance job market strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... demand for finance and insurance professionals is forecast to grow in 2017. Based on the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the finance and insurance sector added 850 roles between November 2016 and February 2017. The finance sector ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update on residential property prices brought home the Reserve Bank of Australia's current concerns and noted in its March monetary policy statement: "Conditions in the housing market vary considerably around ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
Markets received their regular does of adrenalin again yesterday when the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest stats on the country's labour market. The seasonally adjusted numbers showed total employment dropped by 6,400 in February ...