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Chief economist update: Anatomy of an RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... conditions' components - trading, profitability and employment - all suffered significant declines in December. And the outlook is bleak, with the reading on forward orders declining to -1 in December from 0 in November and +3 in October. This is ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... Uhlenbruch says. "Our view is that the RBA will respond to recent developments by signalling confidence in the domestic outlook and the stabilising role that it can play by leaving the cash rate unchanged at accommodative levels until it sees signs of ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... 24,600). Full-time jobs fell by 3000 that followed a 7300 subtraction in the previous month. This does nothing to improve the outlook for consumer spending for as dictated by the "permanent income hypothesis", consumption and spending are a function ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy now, Australian property will be cheaper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... Super Australia in predicting that the RBA's next move would be a cut in the official cash rate. The change in the outlook is due to Capital Economics' expectation that the downturn in the Australian property market would intensify and that ...

Alternatives an antidote to volatility: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... investors with solid income streams and stability amid the uncertainty. The inaugural J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives Outlook, which surveyed global chief executives, chief investment officers and strategists, found constructing an alternative asset ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
What a world of difference a year makes! The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just released its World Economic Outlook Update, the heading: A Weakening Global Expansion. Says it all, really...and for a synopsis: "The global expansion has weakened. ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... since Trump was elected. The decline was primarily focused on prospects for the domestic economy, with the year-ahead outlook for the national economy judged the worst since mid-2014. "The loss was due to a host of issues including the partial government ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... regards to the region's growth and inflation prospects (although this should be somewhat mitigated by the improved growth outlook in emerging markets resulting from US dollar weakness). But have no fear, the European Central Bank (ECB) is very much aware ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... estimates of the longer-run neutral interest rate". All well and good but where to now brown cow? "With regard to the outlook for monetary policy beyond this meeting... participants expressed that recent developments, including the volatility in financial ...

Hiring continues but wage growth under pressure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... sectors signalled intentions to increase headcount, registering 15 percentage points to the ManpowerGroup's net employment outlook index that surveyed over 59,000 employers globally, including 1,500 in Australia. While this is slightly worse than the ...