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Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... exporters and manufacturers benefit from yen weakness. He adds global interest rates have risen sharply since the US election accelerating a trend that began in the third quarter in response to widely improving economic data. He expects the global upturn ...

Trump keeping M&A on a leash

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... acquisitions such as the AT&T/Time Warner deal announced in October." The report noted that due to the uncertainty around the US election last year, multiple major M&A deals were announced just prior, including the US$34.5 billion Level 3/CenturyLink ...

Trump to boost Aussie commodities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... potentially growing impairments, particularly if the global economy continues to grow very slowly." The outcome of the US election also had an impact on the interest in emerging markets, with the sector performing well for much of 2016, particularly ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... revised down by around $3.7 billion in 2016-17 and $30.7 billion over the four years to 2019-20 since the 2016 PEFO (pre-election fiscal outlook). "Recent higher iron ore and coal prices are expected to improve corporate profitability in the mining sector ...

Super tax receipts to reach $8bn: MYEFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... expects superannuation fund tax receipts to increase to more than $8 billion in 2016-17, an increase of 8.8% on its pre-election forecasts. It also predicts superannuation fund tax receipts will reach more than $10.8 billion by 2019-20. In its 2015 MYEFO ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
It's now a week before Christmas and two before we bid 2016 adieu! And what a year 2016 was. It scared you, I and Irene at the open. The Fed was going to raise interest rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone ...

Secure your seat at Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... of the 2017 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum, Principal Global Investors' Bob Baur says he is certain the US election changed the financial market's consensus narrative. "Before 8 November, the storyline was ultra-low interest rates, deflation ...

Coin flipping better than macro forecasts

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... according to Prime Value Asset Management portfolio manager ST Wong. Pointing to the Brexit surprise and Donald Trump's election, Wong said: "You may have more luck predicting the weather." Relying on these forecasts can often have detrimental effects ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... from 51.1) contracted. AiG noted in its report that, "Some respondents to the Australian PSI noted that the US Federal election was a dampening influence on Australian business confidence in November. For others, competition from imports continued to ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... brought it back to the fore...and with a vengeance. Wall Street continues to scale record highs since Donald's presidential election victory - the US dollar index has risen by 3.7% since the win and yields on 10-year US bonds have risen by 50 basis points ...