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Where in the cycle is Australia?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... Looking at this week's battery of Australian economic and survey releases, we're lost...or at least, I am. The NAB business survey shows that business conditions in October have never been higher since they started the survey way back 20 years ago, but ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... monthly Survey commenced in 1997 (around 4 times the long-run average)." This is the opening line of the NAB Monthly Business Survey" report released yesterday. You read it right, Australian business conditions are the best they have been in two decades. ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best levels since before the GFC (January 2008). But consumer moods are ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
If anything, the National Australia Bank's July business survey added credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's optimistic take on the outlook for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... debt." These are the printed words of NAB chief economist, Alan Oster, contained in the just-released NAB monthly business survey for June. I concur that it's nothing but a pleasant surprise. How could one not be? The latest NAB survey showed that business ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
The just-released RBA Financial Aggregates report for May show that Australia's credit state of affairs continues. Total private sector credit growth inched up from 4.9% in the year to April to 5% last month. While this put a stop to the four straight ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
Yesterday's NAB Monthly Business Survey report confirmed that the first quarter slowdown in Australia's economic growth (to 1.7% from 2.4% in the December quarter) was anything but transitory. Although the business conditions index dipped by one point ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
"Better, but not good enough": this is how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sees developments in the global economy. The OECD also answered its own question - "Will risks derail the modest recovery?" - initially posted ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
There were no surprises at the Bank of England's (BOE) 11 May decision to keep the Bank Rate where it was since August 2016, when it was lowered from 0.5% to 0.25% to contain the fallout from the 'Brexit' vote of the previous month - a decision that's ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... 51.9 from 51.2. And just yesterday, we received more indications that Australia is travelling on course. The NAB business survey showed both business conditions and confidence improved in April. Business conditions rose to a nine-year high reading of ...