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Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
It's the first Tuesday of November - the time when the "Melbourne Cup" runs and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets only a few hours apart. All bets are on! There are so many odds on the various horses running in the Cup but there's only ...

What the RC can teach us about trust: Deloitte

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... Royal Commission as an opportunity to better understand how trust works in Australian banks. Launching its first trust index for Australia's banking sector, Deloitte surveyed 2072 customers in an attempt to identify how to rebuild the banks' ...

Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... the week of 20-24 August down 1.1% when most other equity markets around the world registered gains - the MSCI equity index for developed markets rose by 0.8% and that for emerging markets increased by 2.4%. While the Australian dollar's exchange rate ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... Looking at the latest quarterly BOJ Tankan survey, it's already impacted on the land of the rising sun. The headline index for large manufacturers dropped to a reading of +21 in June from +24 in the previous month. This is the lowest reading in exactly ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... Naspers, more than 100% of its value comes from its stake in Tencent, and they account for a third of the return of the index for the last five years." If you haven't owned those stocks, it's been tough but "it's not a situation that lasts forever and ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... February from 0.3% in January, resulting in a steady annual rate of 1.8%. Note that the Fed tracks the core PCE price index for its inflation measure. It remained unchanged at 1.5% in the year to January from the previous month. Its positive correlation ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... more quickly than selling prices." The BOJ's own quarterly Tankan survey provided similar indications. The sentiment index for both large manufacturers (17 in the June quarter from 12 in the March quarter) and large non-manufacturers (23 from 20) improved ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... reading since March this year. In Japan, the BOJ's quarterly Tankan survey - a measure of business confidence - showed the index for large manufacturers rose to a better than expected reading of 17 in the second quarter from 12 in the first quarter. ...

Personal security concerns reach new high: Unisys

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... the highest it's been in the last decade according to the latest Unisys Security Index. The overall Unisys Security Index for Australia is 157 out of 300, up from 106 recorded in the last survey in 2014, and the highest index score since the research ...

Confidence slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... April from 99.7 in the previous month - the fifth consecutive month where pessimists outnumbered optimists - with the index for economic over the next 12 months dropping by 6.5% over the month and the "time to buy a major household item" sub-index down ...