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OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... two years) as written in its 'Australia - Economic forecast summary (November 2017)' report. The OECD's predictions include: GDP growth of 2.5% in 2017, 2.8% in 2018 and 2.7% in 2019; core inflation at 1.7% in 2017, 2.1% in 2018 and 2.2% in 2019; unemployment ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... Kaplan, listed "measures of potential financial excess." "The US stock market capitalisation now stands at approximately 135% of GDP, the highest since 1999/2000. Correspondingly, commercial real estate cap rates and valuation measures of debt and other ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... growth momentum is strengthening for its consumers are spending. In Economics 101, we were taught that gross domestic product (GDP) - the value of final goods and services produced in a country at a given time - is derived by the summation of C+I+G+ ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... inflation expectations." But recent data releases show that the cycle has stalled at best. Preliminary estimates show Japanese GDP growth slowed to 0.3% in the September quarter - half of the 0.6% expansion recorded in the previous three-month period. ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... account for a bigger portion of its economy. According to fullfact.org, Britain's exports to EU countries account for 12% of UK GDP. In contrasts, EU exports to the UK are worth only around 3% of EU (less UK) GDP. But UK prime minister May can still ...

Where in the cycle is Australia?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... destination. But what if you don't know where you presently are? Such is the problem for the Australian economy. Destination: "GDP growth to pick up and to average around 3% over the next few years" and "inflation to pick up gradually as the economy ...

Less liquidity to lessen risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... perfectly timed for the economy continues to expand greater than the government's growth target of 6.5% this year. Chinese GDP grew by 6.9% in the year to the March 2017 and June quarter and 6.8% in the September quarter.

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... the American is doing quite nicely, thank you very much. Despite the negative impact of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, US real GDP only dipped slightly to an annualised rate of 3% in the third quarter from 3.1% in the June quarter which is the fastest growth ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... which account for a big chunk of household final consumption expenditure which, in turn, accounts for around two-thirds of GDP - continues to not grow. While the monthly figures show an improvement from decline of 0.3% in July and 0.5% in August to 0% ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... Prices (October 2017)' report says that "The consumption tax hike scheduled to take place in October 2019 will affect the GDP growth rates" but "The negative impact on the projected growth rate for fiscal 2019 is expected to be smaller than that on the ...