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Machineries not in order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
Just when we thought the sun's starting to shine. Japan private core machinery orders (orders excluding ships and electrical equipment) - a leading indicator of business investment - dropped by 5.1% in the month of November. This is heaps worse than ...

Energy fuels US cross-border inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... month. This is lower than market expectations for a 0.7% increase as a 0.2% decline in non-fuel prices provided partial offset. The year-on-year rate of import price inflation surged to 1.8% in December from 0.1% in November - the second straight month ...

Slack Eurozone labour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... since May of 2011 as an acceleration in manufacturing - up to 54.7 (the best since April 2011) from 53.7 in November - offset a slight dip, albeit, still expanding services sector (down to 53.7 from 53.8). Across the region, the lowest jobless rate was ...

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... This followed last week's report that total US employment grew by a less than expected 156K in December (though this was offset by an upward revision that added an extra 19K employed in October and November) and the unemployment rate inching up to 4.7% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... the yield curve and share market gains. Domestically-based confidence and the local housing market provided a negative offset. US existing home sales Sales of existing homes increased by 0.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.61 million units ...

ICG acquires major WA wind farm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... the annual capacity to power the equivalent of around 40,000 homes, provide renewable energy to WA's Water Corporation to offset the energy requirements of the Southern Seawater desalination plant near Bunbury." He added: "The wind farm has also received ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... from November's final reading of 54.9 as stronger expansion in manufacturing (to 54.2 in December from 54.1) was more than offset by a fall in the services sector's expansion (to 53.4 from 54.6) - the lowest reading in three months on the back of easing ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... sector in 2016-17, which is expected to provide some support to tax collections in 2017-18. However, this will be more than offset by the impact of weaker growth in aggregate wages and non-mining profits across the forward estimates." He went on to say ...

Super tax receipts to reach $8bn: MYEFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... to be supported by the parliament at $13.2 billion, including $12.5 billion in payment savings. "Sustained discipline to offset new expenditure and pass existing Budget repair measures is needed to consolidate the Budget and to lower government debt ...

CBA finances wind farm construction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
The Commonwealth Bank is entering a consortium financing the construction of one of Australia's largest wind farms. The bank is co-financing the project with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, CWP Renewables, Partners Group, Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui ...