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Investors can expect "reasonable" year despite gloom

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... administrative burden with TDs that can be overlooked," he said. On the local economy Stammer forecasted a "reasonable" outlook with GDP growth of 2.75% for the year and core inflation at 2%. Much of the economic growth looks set to come from infrastructure ...

Ageing Australia will impact budget for next decade

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... rate of around 3.5% since 2007 compared with around 3% during the 1980s and 1990s," Fraser said. "As a result, at 25.9% of GDP, spending in 2015-16 is forecast to be close to the post-GFC peak, and could have been higher were it not for the measures ...

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... inventories climbed by 0.5% (unwanted inventory build-up). The latest update had prompted revisions in US fourth quarter real GDP growth - scheduled for release tomorrow - from an annualised rate of 0.8% (consensus expectations). JPMorgan Chase & Co ...

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... consumer-led. "Every time an economy goes through this transition it is a difficult experience," he said, adding that though official GDP of 6-7% growth is probably massaged by the authorities, there's enough to be optimistic about, even if investment ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... their assets under management since 2003, now managing more than $1.1 trillion and equivalent to about 45% of the country's GDP. The Canadian Top 10 remain prominent global players in the alternative asset management industry, with seven funds named ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... quarter as a whole saw the largest increase in business activity for four-and-a-half years. The survey is signalling a quarterly GDP rise of 0.4%, meaning the region grew 1.5% in 2015. Most encouraging of all is the upturn in the rate of job creation ...

MYEFO writes down billions in super fund taxes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... that should be assessed." Morrison said the underlying budget deficit is projected to contract from 2.3% per cent to 0.7% of GDP over the budget and forward estimates.

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... rebalancing away from the mining sector, there are still a couple of years to run. Mining investment peaked a bit above 7% of GDP in 2012 and at the end of the third quarter in 2015 it had fallen back to around 5%. "To put this in context, its long-run ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... Eurozone economy and its outlook are worse than many are expecting? But it is not according to the ECB's new forecasts. Eurozone GDP is expected to grow by 1.7% this year (unchanged from September's prediction) and then by 1.9% next year (up from the ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... exports (exports minus imports) and household consumption's 0.4 pp add (up from 0.3 pp contribution in the second quarter). GDP is not made up of business investments alone. Economics 101 tells us that GDP equals C+I+G+(X-M) - or consumption plus investment ...