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Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... salivating, wringing their hands and thanking their lucky stars. Those who don't are still pounding the pavement - winter, spring, summer and autumn - wishin' and hopin' and prayin' that one day, someday, they, too, will have the "Great ...

Licensee to acquire Sentry Group

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... director Keith Cullen, who will lead the new firm. WTL operates Wealth Today, which provides dealer group services and Spring Financial Group, which operates SFG Private Wealth, Spring FG Funds Management and Spring Realty. He is joined by Sentry shareholder ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... mindful we're only days into the winter season, there is enough fuel for house price growth to be fired up again in the spring selling season by investors returning to the market, encouraged by low mortgage lending rates, three more months of savings ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... Business Federation figures showing major companies have agreed on an average pay hike of 1.82% in this year's annual spring wage negotiations, falling below 2% for the time since 2013 and the slowest pace since the aftermath of the 2008 financial ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... Jerome Powell's view that while measured inflation has risen, it's likely to be temporary. One swallow does not a spring make but the disappointing jobs numbers justify the Fed's belief that considerable slack remains in the economy and ...

Macquarie-linked fund manager shutters

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... reduced capital base has made the company's financial position unsustainable. Despite many promising dialogues during the spring, we have not been able to find a suitable buyer for IPM. Catella would like to thank IPM's customers for their trust ...

Afterpay reveals US plans, economic impact

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... Retailers including Urban Outfitters, lululemon, Pandora and Shiseido will begin offering the BNPL service in time for the Spring shopping season, Afterpay said. Afterpay is not working to any specific deadline for the potential listing, which would ...

Chief economist update: Positive feedback loop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
"Business is picking up as mandated restrictions seem to be easing and spring is right around the corner." "Higher levels of demand related to additional business reopening, and increased activity related to vaccination distribution." "Vaccination rates ...

Chief economist update: More manna from UK Treasury

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
... total COVID support package, this year and next, is £352 billion," he said. "Once you include the measures announced at Spring Budget last year, including the step change in capital investment, total fiscal support from this Government over this year ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... participants further observed that 12-month PCE inflation was likely to move somewhat above 2 percent for a brief period in the spring as the unusually low monthly observations from last spring roll out of the 12-month calculation". "Many participants ...