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MDA firm hires former Pillar chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... and Alinta Energy, and held executive roles at Challenger Financial Services Group, MLC and Grant Thornton. MGP chair Don Sharp said Brook's experience will be a major asset in light of the company embarking on a range of new initiatives this year. The ...

Not as good as the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... second highest on record surplus was achieved not by booming export growth - up 1.0% in the month of February - but by a sharp contraction in imports - down by 5.0% over the same month. While an improvement from the 3% fall in January, the 1.0% growth ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
"Do you really want to hurt me Do you really want to make me cry..." - Culture Club It began like just another ordinary day on Wall Street but last night it was one with an upward bias despite geo-political tremors - chemical attack in Syria and nuclear ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! US consumers must be partying like it's the year 2000 for they have not been this optimistic since December of that year. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index surged to a reading of 125.6 in March from 116.1 in the previous ...

Less than expected but good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... the surge in oil prices over the same period - Brent oil jumped by 55.1% over the same period. This is underscored by the sharp increase in imports of mineral fuels (up38.1%) and petroleum (up 69.9%) and mainly from the Middle East (up 46.4%) as purchases ...

Price-pressured

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The latest inflation stats out of the UK gave additional credence to BOE monetary policy committee member Kristin Forbes' dissent - she "considered it appropriate to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points" -- at the March meeting. Along with the low ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update on residential property prices brought home the Reserve Bank of Australia's current concerns and noted in its March monetary policy statement: "Conditions in the housing market vary considerably around ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... the core rate has advanced to 1.6% from 1.4%. The strength in domestic economic activity, along with the British pound's sharp depreciation - Sterling's effective exchange rate has dropped by 12.9% since Brexit on 23 June 2016 - would put upward pressure ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... China (PBOC) deputy governor Yi Gang's predicted inflation rate of 2% - 3% for this year appears at risk should the recent sharp slowdown in CPI inflation persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in the year to February ...

Year of the Rooster deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
China's trade balance went into a US$9.2 billion deficit in February from a surplus of US$51.4 billion in the previous month and a surplus of US$28.2 billion in the same month in 2016. This was the first monthly trade deficit recorded since February ...