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Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... home borrowings even as home borrowing still dominates credit markets. According to the RBA total private sector credit growth accelerated almost three times faster than inflation to 5.4% in the year to June from 5.0% in the previous month. This is the ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... Financial Aggregates report for May show that Australia's credit state of affairs continues. Total private sector credit 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 ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... per cent by 2018, also lags." And risks remain. The OECD highlighted the financial risk from elevated and rising credit growth and house prices and interest rate gaps - monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone and Japan. "Closing this ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... just-released RBA Financial Aggregates report for April show that this state of affairs continues. Total private sector 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 ...

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... month. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since May 2011 and the third consecutive month of strengthening credit growth. Credit to non-financial corporations increased by 2.3% in the year to January, similar to December, which was the fastest ...

Bad credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... Declines in credit to business (-0.3%) and personal credit (-0.2%) provided offset. Year-on-year, total private sector credit growth slowed to 5.4% in January from 5.6% in the previous month. Business credit eased to 4.7% from 5.6%. Growth in housing ...

A bump up in credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... September 2015 -- accelerating from November's 0.5% gain and beating market expectations. In year-on-year terms, total credit growth quickened from 5.4% in November to 5.6% last month - the fastest since August last year (when the RBA cut interest rates ...

Credit where credit is not due

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... since June 2016's 14.3% -- from 13.1% in the previous month. China needs to find a balance between curbing excessive credit growth - to prevent further blowing up the bubble in its asset markets - but not so much that it slows economic growth below the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... October for its 11th straight month of decline. Year-on-year, Australia's credit picture is not as positive. Total credit growth slowed to 5.3% -- the slowest since August 2014 -- in the year to October from 5.4% in the previous month. The annual rate ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... in Australia but the year-on-year growth rates point to slowing loan demand. Year-on-year, total private sector credit growth decelerated to 5.4% in September from 5.8% in the previous month. This is the slowest pace in two years and represents the fifth ...