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Limited super investment in VC holding Australia back: AVCAL

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... average (OECD nations plus a handful of others countries including China, Taiwan and Singapore), at just 0.023% of Australia's GDP compared to the OECD average of 0.049%. AVCAL chief executive Yasser El-Ansary says that if Australia is to be truly ambitious ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... National Accounts that exports accounted for the biggest subtraction (0.4 percentage points) to Australia's first quarter GDP growth of 0.3%. While the weakness of the A$ -- A$/US$ down by 2.5% from its 2017 high; A$ TWI down 4.0% from 2017 high -- should ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... persistent inequalities... Compared to the 20-year pre-crisis average against which expectations have been set, OECD per capita GDP growth remains over 1/2 percentage point weaker and global growth overall, projected to rise to just above 31/2 per cent ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Australia's economic scorecard is out. GDP growth has plummeted to 0.3% in the March quarter compared to 1.1% last quarter, leaving economic annual growth at a lackluster 1.7%. Economic growth slowing by one third in past year adds to the pressure piling ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... sharp 1.2% increase in inventories in the first quarter of this year - one that should provide a positive contribution to GDP growth. However, there's also bad news. As underscored by the ABS' report's "Key Points", manufacturing sales of good and services ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... expectations for a 0.8% increase, the report showed that spending on plant, equipment and machinery - that which feeds into GDP - declined by 0.1% over the quarter. Moreover, according to the ABS, "Estimate 6 for 2016-17 is $112,629m. This is 11.4% lower ...

Distribution reshapes globalisation: Capital Group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... subsidiary of Vodafone," he said. "It was set up in 2007 and has $45 billion of annual transactions or two-thirds of Kenya's GDP. If people didn't have a bank account before they now do - and it's on their phone so employers can pay directly to the mobile ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... December quarter 2016 Australian National Accounts revealed that total dwelling investment accounted for only roughly 6% of GDP. Not much. But this underestimates the flow-on effects of housing on the economy. An ABS report on "The construction industry's ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... May meeting was released three weeks after. Chances are they've risen even more following the recent upward revision to US GDP growth. The second estimate of US GDP showed the US economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.2% in the first quarter, much higher ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... reforms deepen. The strengths of its credit profile will allow the sovereign to remain resilient to negative shocks, with GDP growth likely to stay strong compared to other sovereigns, still considerable scope for policy to adapt to support the economy ...