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Top franked stock picks: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2021
... of trustee services to the securitisation market and outsourced responsible entity services to funds. All positive indicators of future income-generating abilities, according to Morningstar. While perhaps best known for its superannuation administration ...

Economic recap: Week to July 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... high of 63.2 points in June for its ninth straight month of above-50 reading indicating expansion. All seven activity indicators registered readings indicating expansion. This contrasts with the IHS Markit Australia manufacturing survey that showed the ...

Chief economist update: Chinese activity indicators disappoint but growth target intact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Disappointing. This is the one word that describes the latest batch of activity indicators out of China. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released retail sales, industrial production and fixed asset investment that were still stronger than usual ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... 2022 and, in any case, until it judges that the coronavirus crisis phase is over". Sure, activity and leading economic indicators in the region had significantly improved. So much so, that in its May Economic Outlook report, the OECD upgraded the Eurozone's ...

Chief economist update: US inflation may not be as transitory as the Fed believes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... rationalise accordingly. How else does one explain the US equity market's opposing reaction to the two most important indicators the Fed watches in determining its next policy move only a month apart? Wall Street rallied last month when the US Bureau ...

Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
"Boom boom boom boom!" - Vengaboys The Australian property market should adopt this as its official anthem. The property craze in this Land Down Under is best portrayed by an article in the Daily Telegraph telling the story about "a mouldy 1970s house ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ will run out of patience next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... May Board meeting. Same old, same old. The central bank notes that: "The improvement in global and domestic economic indicators... have provided members more confidence in this outlook, they agreed on the need for caution as domestic activity remains ...

Chief economist update: Recovery flashing hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
... China's PMI, but both its manufacturing and services sector had been expanding since May last year and latest activity indicators - retail sales, industrial production and fixed asset investment - suggest they'll continue to do so. To be sure ...

Chief economist: What JobKeeper cliff?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
... could be further employment losses in the coming months. However, this goes against the recent improvement in leading indicators. And just as Bjorn Jarvis - head of labour statistics at the ABS - explains, "The end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy did not ...

Chief economist: The path to normality

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... 19.9% in the year to April, down from 25.6% in March and still slightly behind expectations for a 20.0% expansion. Indicators show that China in on the path towards normality, possibly until August at the latest which, coincidentally is marked by the ...