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Good news or bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... expectations for a 5.9% gain. Reports attribute the PPI's easing to higher base effects from the previous year but prices at the factory gates are expected to continue moderating in light of the government's efforts against pollution and overcapacity ...

Australia becoming millionaire factory: Credit Suisse

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
The 12 months to mid-2017 saw the number of Australian millionaires rise by 200,000 - the third-largest increase after the US and Germany. The Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report showed that over the same period, the number of ultra-high net worth individuals ...

China's inflation lift indicates strong demand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... 7.6% year-on-year increase recorded in March this year and marked the 14th straight month of gains in prices at China's factory gates. The pick-up in CPI inflation indicates that Chinese producers are able to pass on the higher costs of production onto ...

New industry body to launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... experts. It will officially launch on Thursday 26 October with launch partners including Tank Stream Labs, York Butter Factory, FinTech Australia, and ANZIFF. Also partnering in various ways is QBE, Macquarie Bank, MunichRe, TAS, EY, AUB Group, The Fold ...

Flashes: activity expansion and moderating inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... inflation - as far as heading towards the Fed's target - is not. Among manufacturers, "despite increased input costs, factory gate price inflation moderated in July to its weakest since November 2016", while in the service sector "input cost inflation ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... print and the weakest reading since September 2016 but still represented the 8th straight month of expansion in China's factory sector. As with the official survey the details of the report showed the slowing rates of expansion in new orders, new export ...

Price-pressured

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... previous month and 1.4% in June 2016 (Brexit vote). And there's more upward pressure in the pipeline with prices at the factory gates (PPI-output) rising by 3.7% in the year to February from 3.6% in the previous month. This is the fastest rate of increase ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... increase in producer prices since September 2008 and marked the sixth consecutive month of accelerating inflation at the factory gate.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... producer price inflation up to 0.4% from minus 0.1% in October. The latest data shows the annual rate of deflation at Japan's factory gate easing to 2.2% from 2.7% in the year to October. Although still negative - for the 20th straight month - producer ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
... of British Industry's (CBI) industrial trends survey of total order book balance - which tracks changes in the level of factory orders in around 500 UK businesses across 38 sectors in the manufacturing industry - rose to a reading of minus 3 in November ...