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Chief economist update: Aussie property price falls become self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... provide ancillary services to the sector. Not to mention, the hit to optimism by the negative wealth effect from falling housing prices, triggering reduced consumer spending, lower company profits, a decline in business investment - plant, equipment ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... uncertainty continues to be the strength of household consumption in the context of weak growth in household income and falling housing prices in some cities." Speaking of household income, the Budget predicts the wage price index - up 2.3% in the December ...

Board of Taxation reviews granny flat taxes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... families to create formal agreements, in order to lessen the vulnerability of elderly people living in granny flat type housing. Formal and legally enforceable family agreements were identified as a measure to prevent elder abuse in the 2017 Australian ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... NAB business survey that showed sharp decline in both business conditions and business confidence over the same month. Housing credit slowed to a year-on-year rate of 4.2% in February from 4.4% in the previous month - the 18th consecutive month of weakening ...

Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... women of the RBA board would have discussed the slowing trend in the Australian economy, the multiplier effects of the housing downturn, tariff man Trump, the global slowdown (particularly China). Not to mention the Australian dollar's resilience ...

Negative gearing reforms not a panacea: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... Financial Standard 's latest spot poll reveals Labor's proposed changes to negative gearing will not curb the housing affordability crisis. About 56% of readers don't believe Labor's proposed reforms will improve housing affordability. ...

Chief economist update: Wrong way, go down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... undermine the Aussie this year will be far closer to home: potential spill-over effects from the unwind in Australia's housing market boom." "While the risks around [a deterioration in the external environment, particularly China], appear to have ...

Chief economist update: The Fed has hit neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... event this week - US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's semi-annual testimony before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the US Senate - turned out to be a bummer. We've seen this movie before. Copied and pasted below ...

Chief economist update: Unchanged RBNZ stance would force it to change stance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... employment growth, should support household spending and business investment. Government spending on infrastructure and housing also supports domestic demand. As capacity pressures build, consumer price inflation is expected to rise to around the mid-point ...

Royal Commission will worsen credit crunch: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... of making it tougher to obtain finance. About one-in-four respondents (24%) believe it will have minimal effect on the housing market. Nicki Hutley, a partner at Deloitte Access Economics, told Financial Standard 's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney ...