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Australia's super assets fastest growing: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... years of progress makes for encouraging reading. In particular, the improving position of pension assets as a proportion of GDP and the evolution of pension fund governance, which has risen up trustees' agendas and is certainly a lot stronger as a result," ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... expansion, which accelerated more than expected in the second half of 2017." That was "the second half of 2017", the full-year GDP growth result is much, much better. Sure, the annual rate of growth in the economy slowed to 2.7% in the December 2017 ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... to stabilise around the Committee's 2% objective over the medium term." The indicators show it should. Growth is faster - GDP increased by 2.5% in the year to December 2017 quarter versus 1.8% in 2016 - the unemployment rate is down to 4.1% at the end ...

Chief economist update: Build, build, and build some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... this year (and Madam Yellen's last). In Europe, we'll get the latest update on the region's economic growth (fourth quarter GDP) and inflation. Australia, too, will get a big market moving number tomorrow when the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
The US economy had been expected to slow in the fourth quarter of 2017... but not this slow. The advance estimate of US GDP showed economic growth decelerated to a 2.6% annual rate in the December 2017 quarter from a two-and-a-half-year high of 3.2% ...

Australia increases foreign direct investment inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... division director James Zhan said the decline of global FDI flows is in stark contrast to other macroeconomic variables, such as GDP and trade growth, which saw substantial improvements in 2017. "Upward synchronisation of the trends in 2018 is probable ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... predicting world output to quicken to 3.9% this year and the next from 3.7% in 2017. The same one that's upgraded Japanese GDP growth by a whopping 0.5 percentage points to 1.2% this year and by 0.1% to 0.9% in 2019 (the slowdown is due to "a cyclical ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... lowest level in nearly seven years. Now, for the good news: For the nth time, China has proven the experts wrong. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.8% in the year to the December quarter following a similar increase in the previous quarter. This is higher than ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Because household consumption accounts for around two-thirds of Australia's economy, here's to looking forward to stronger GDP growth in the coming quarters. Real GDP slowed to a quarterly rate of 0.6% in the three-month period ending September 2017 ...

Chief economist update: One hike this year, one hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... easing from 3.0% in 2017 to 2.4% by the end of this year before slowing to 2.2% in 2019 and 2.1% in 2020. The report also shows GDP growth projections of 1.5% in 2017 and 1.7% this year and through to 2020. As for their implication for BOE monetary policy ...