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Economic balancing act

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
Producer price index (PPI) data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday show an increase in producer prices of 1.0 per cent in the June quarter, slightly higher than the median forecast of 0.8 per cent and giving an annual increase ...

China's rates up again

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
Some call it knee jerk, some call it inevitability, but either way China raised interest rates for the third time since March, by 27bp to 6.84 per cent in an attempt to cool the fastest pace of economic growth in 12 years and combat record inflation. ...

China's GDP and CPI blowout

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
China continues to blitz market expectations with GDP growth in the June quarter coming in at 11.9 per cent, well above the expected 11.0 per cent and their strongest growth since Q3 1994. China's industrial production also expanded by 1.3 per cent ...

Hiking partners: Aussie dollar and Kiwi inflation

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Ever onwards and upwards, the Australian dollar nudges US88Ac, and New Zealand's inflation is stubbornly refusing to come down. The Australian dollar climbed steadily for a ninth consecutive day to reach an 18-year record of US0.8789 overnight. Falls ...

AIG builds major risk upgrade for AON

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
AIG Life has custom built new group insurance arrangements with AON Master Trust, adding a significant range of new policy features that AON believes makes their master trust among the most competitive in the market. AIG Life's Head of Group Insurance ...

Confidently counting our chickens

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
With inflation at a two-year low most economists are tipping there's next to no chance the RBA will hatch an interest rate rise this month. In fact, Foxtel's business news was headlining that RBA rates were on hold, just hours after the CPI figures ...

Good thing bananas don't pay rent

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
If bananas becoming luxury goods were a key driver of the 0.1 per cent lift in inflation, then escalating rents could be the next black cloud on our inflation horizon. The problem is increasing rents, which experienced their biggest quarterly rise in ...

Inflation up but lower than expected

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
The producer price index - effectively the wholesale inflation rate - remained unchanged in the first quarter at an annual rate of 2.8 per cent, lower than market expectations of a 0.6 per cent rise for the quarter, leaving the annual rate losing pace ...

Crystal ball gets cloudy in wait for CPI figures

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Inflation figures out tomorrow will be a telling predictor into the RBA's decision on domestic interest rates next week. Many economists are already tipping that, with further deterioration in import prices set to push down headline inflation over months ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Flying in the face of a 4.5 per cent jobless rate, strong currency and figures showing 5.5 per cent of household finances have improved in the last month, interest rate uncertainty may account for the latest figures in consumer confidence dipping to ...