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Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... support the economy even if growth edges below the 6.5% target. Baur said solid Eurozone business surveys suggest the mild recovery in the currency union will persist and growth should remain in the 1.5% to 2% range. He says Japan's economy will grow ...

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... to 4.7% from 4.6%. However, I agree with Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart's comments that, "The job of cyclical recovery is largely done". This is because the details of the latest jobs report showed that average hourly earnings growth accelerated ...

Trump to boost Aussie commodities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... move higher; "Several key players in the sector have scaled back on their global ambitions, and while there has been a recovery of sorts in commodity prices, banks are heavily exposed to a highly cyclical sector with potentially growing impairments ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... our view that although the pace of improvement in the labour market has slowed, conditions remain supportive of ongoing recovery". US non-manufacturing survey The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing index surged to 57.2 in November ...

Industry funds lead Labor's super inquiry

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... complaint with the ATO still waiting for answers, let alone their money, years afterwards. One has told us he was advised recovery of unpaid super may take up to 10 to 20 years," Bracks said. "Employers who do the right thing by their employees are competing ...

Japan ripe for investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... Japanese market has now diminished and has left investors with the opportunity to invest in a market experiencing cyclical recovery and delivering increased returns. "Two years ago there was all this hype about Abenomics and the market got pumped up ...

The $25 trillion decision US voters have to make

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... Instreet Investment managing director George Lucas puts the numbers at around 5% to 10% sell-off, but with a Brexit style recovery afterwards. "A Clinton win could see the US market easily recover the 3% it has already lost, but this also depends on ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... levels." Likewise, "Engineering construction returned to negative territory in October following two months of solid recovery while commercial construction declined at a sharper pace with respondents noting a continuation of patchy conditions across ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... been less by now, or to be exact, straight after 14 October when the Fed's head honcha talked about "The Elusive 'Great' Recovery: Causes and Implications for Future Business Cycle Dynamics" at 60th annual economic conference sponsored by the Federal ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... release: "Nearly two thirds of the gain has come from the combination of: a rally in commodity prices (+0.51ppts); a modest recovery in US industrial production (+0.40ppts) and globally-driven improvements in financial conditions reflected in the sharemarket ...