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Moody Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... these "lingered" until early 2017. Not when almost all "experts" agree that the September quarter contraction in Australian GDP would be a one-off. This is also inconsistent with the wealth effect brought on by the All Ordinaries' 7.0% gain for the year ...

Offline Australian retail sales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... the economy because it's the building block of overall household consumption which accounts for around 60% of Australia's GDP. Getting it right - or wrong - has implications for domestic macro- and micro-economic policies. My database shows that the ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... will deliver on his promised reflation - one that would bring about stronger growth (he's aiming for 3%-4% growth in US real GDP) that would lift company profits - and all the good things that go with it (investments in capital and labour) - and an end ...

Global investors missed turning point

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... also means the domicile of big companies is not as important as past decades. Insync says shrinking workforces mean lower GDP growth and with this the assumptions feeding into investment fundamentals such as earnings per share growth and the like will ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... over the next four years). The projected peak in net debt was also beamed up by a year from FY2017/18 to FY2018/19 (at 19% of GDP) "and then decline over the medium term". The reason? ScoMo explains: "Government payments as a share of GDP have declined ...

Super tax receipts to reach $8bn: MYEFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... revised with super fund tax receipts expected to reach $9.8 billion by 2018-19. Treasurer Scott Morrison said a fall in nominal GDP reduces tax collections. He said the largest impact is on company tax receipts as the fall in export income decreases ...

The good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... a problem for Australia... and more so given indications of a weakening economy and a negative start - as in negative 0.5% GDP growth in the third quarter - to the fourth quarter. Business conditions have deteriorated in October and November and so has ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
Australia trade balance It makes a nice sequel to the horror 0.5% contraction in Australia's third quarter GDP growth, a widening of the country's trade deficit, that is. Australia's trade deficit rose by 21.3% to A$1.54 billion in October from A$1.27 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
Australia GDP Economists expected Australia's economic growth to halve to 0.3% in the September quarter from 0.6% in the three-months ended June. That turned out to be highly optimistic. This is because the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) latest ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... report made this moot, employment after all is a lagging indicator. The Bureau of Economic Analysis upgraded US third quarter GDP growth to an annualised rate of 3.2% from the advance estimate of 2.9% and 1.4% in the second quarter. This is the fastest ...