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Divergent business confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... Forward orders increased from three to four last month driven by a large increase in manufacturing orders that was offset by a sharp decline in retail orders. While trading and profitability dipped by one point each - to 18 and 15, respectively - they ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... Australian economy: "Ongoing expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending. The recent sharp increase in the relative price of utilities poses a further downside risk to the non-energy part of household consumption ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... sales ex-autos quickened to 3.9% from 2.7%. To be sure, the lift in retail spending has already been telegraphed by the sharp increase in the Department of Commerce's consumer sentiment index - up to 121.1 in July from 117.3 in June. More encouraging ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... Bank (ECB) and its president Mario Draghi have so far been conspicuous in not voicing out their trepidation over the euro's sharp appreciation. Unlike in previous episodes of rising euro exchange rate, there's nary a word uttered to jawbone the currency ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... not high enough compared to 2016's high of 27.59 triggered by China's devaluation of its currency and expectations of a sharp slowdown in its economy. This is not to say that the fear gauge won't increase further or sell downs would stop in the equity ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... Australian economy: "Ongoing expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending. The recent sharp increase in the relative price of utilities poses a further downside risk to the non-energy part of household consumption ...

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 ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Unlike the Bank of Canada (BOC) which he headed from 2008-2013, now Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney didn't follow through on the remarks he made at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates by 25 basis points - repo rate to 6% (the first reduction in 10 months and the lowest rate since October 2010) and the reverse repo rate to 5.75% (reversing the 25 bps hike announced only four months ...

Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) should welcome early signs of flattening (not a sharp and sudden deceleration) in housing credit growth. Personal lending fell by 1.4% in the year to June (unchanged from May) ...