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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... to be transitory. In particular, the Index growth rate - a six monthly measure - is still being heavily impacted by the sharp fall in Australian commodity prices in the second half of 2015. Prices have since posted a solid rally and although it remains ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... Australia employment Lead indications from the AiG performance of manufacturing index and the NAB business survey pointed to a sharp improvement in Australian employment growth in March. The employment component of the AiG performance of manufacturing ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... in March, disappointing consensus expectations for a 0.1% pick up and follows February's flat reading, due largely to a sharp 2.1% decline in auto sales over the month which was partly offset by a 0.9% increase in gasoline sales. Excluding autos and ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... year. So what's Japan to do? So far verbal intervention hasn't worked. Just last week, finance minister Aso declared that sharp currency movements are undesirable while chief Cabinet secretary Suga warned that Japan would act if necessary. Continued ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
AiG Performance of Construction index Construction activity in Australia continues to slow. The AiG Performance of Construction Index fell to a 13th month low of 45.2 points in March from 46.1 in February. The latest result also marked the fourth straight ...

Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
The Australian housing market is heading towards a price plateau, not a sharp crash according to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). This view helps to dampen new research from Finder which found that 89.3% of Australian housing debt was at an ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... higher-than-expected 0.3% in the month. But this isn't news anymore. The bigger news, as far as I'm concerned, is the indication from the sharp turnaround in the ISM manufacturing index. The index jumped to a reading of 51.8 in March after spending five ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... ninth straight month of expansion (the longest since 2006). All seven of activity sub-indices improved last month led by a sharp 9.3-point increase in new orders to 61.7, portending even stronger activity going forward. But, as AiG noted in its report ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... fell by 0.1%. Worse, personal spending (which accounts for around 70% of GDP) - gained only 0.1% last month following a sharp downward revision in January's number from 0.5% to 0.1%. The report suggests that GDP growth expectations for a 1.0% annualised ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... data are pointing to very modest GDP growth in the first quarter." (Markit Economics) Markit flash Eurozone composite PMI A sharp improvement in the eurozone's services sector in March - Services PMI Activity Index up to 54.0 from 53.3 in February - ...