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December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... inflation forecasts (I'm pretty sure they've already seen this before they convened last month). The BOE now expects real GDP growth of 1.2% at the end of the 2015 fiscal year (ending 30 April 2016) down from 1.7% it predicted only last July and by 1.4% ...

Aged care conundrum for superannuation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... and health care. The paper says that by 2055, Australian government Aged Care expenditure is projected to rise from 0.9% of GDP in 2014-15 to 1.7% of GDP in 2054-55. Health care costs funded by the government are also projected to more than double in ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... the Fed's caveat, that of data dependence. And we got one big one last night, an upward revision in US third quarter real GDP growth from the initial estimate of 1.5% (annualised rate) to 2.1%. The headline number says... go ahead Janet make our day!...the ...

The Fed could get it wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... held it there on this meeting. Because... "In the forecast prepared for the meeting, the staff left its projection for real GDP growth in the second half of 2008 little changed from the previous meeting, but it marked down its forecast for 2009 slightly. ...

Sovereign wealth funds banking on Aussie innovation

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... Innovation Australia Board over the critically important next few years," El-Ansary said. Venture capital amounts 0.01% of GDP, yet venture capital backed firms account for 10% of all business research and development expenditure in Australia.

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... ("no" in Japanese), the economy isn't "recovering moderately". Instead, the economy has slid back into recession with real GDP contracting at an annualised rate of 0.8% in the third quarter that followed a 0.7% decline in the June quarter - that's recession ...

Paris adds to the "why nots" for a December lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... for commodity prices and to US exports, particularly given the slowdown in China (new target 6.5%) and the Eurozone (real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the third quarter from 0.4% in the second) and Japan (forecast to fall into another recession when its ...

The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015

Good tidings sway RBA to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... in the economy: "In Australia, the available information suggests that moderate expansion in the economy continues. While GDP growth has been somewhat below longer-term averages for some time, business surveys suggest a gradual improvement in conditions ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... official cash rate) pi = 2.1% (latest trimmed mean inflation measure) pi* = 2.5% (RBA inflation target) y = 2.0% (latest annual GDP growth rate) y* = 3.5% (potential GDP growth rate) Substituting these numbers in the equation gives us an equilibrium ...