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| | ... weighted median, no pick up at 1.9% -- remains below the lower end of the RBA's 2%-3% target band, indicating that household spending isn't strong enough to generate demand-pull inflation. Sweeter still (again not for the RBA) is deputy governor Guy ... |
| | | ... (2.1% in July) need to increase at the same 3% rate of headline CPI inflation just to keep up and maintain household spending levels. To be sure, there is the risk that an imminent rate hike would slow wages growth but at this stage in the UK economic ... |
| | | ... consumer optimism is encouraging, it's still early to conclude that this would eventually prompt an increase in household spending. The latest ABS retail sales survey showed retail spending dropped by a bigger-than-expected 0.6% in the month of August. ... |
| | | ... should start thinking about bringing the official cash rate to another level of "emergency" before the weakening household spending turns into a vicious cycle. Then again, this would just jack up household debt levels (and property prices) to new heights ... |
| | | ... particularly, employment and wage increases - to maintain profitability. This would circle back into softer household spending. These, among others, help explain the Australian equity market's flat performance this year to date - the All Ordinaries index ... |
| | | ... the energy provider). The increase in electricity prices would divert any rise in wages (if any) away from household spending while at the same time raising operating costs among businesses, reducing their margins and by extension, investment in plant ... |
| | | ... this for the Australian economy: "Ongoing expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending. The recent sharp increase in the relative price of utilities poses a further downside risk to the non-energy part of household ... |
| | | ... this for the Australian economy: "Ongoing expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending. The recent sharp increase in the relative price of utilities poses a further downside risk to the non-energy part of household ... |
| | | ... on Monetary Policy', the RBA stated: "expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside risk for household spending." Not only this, whatever household spending is left would likely be spent on cheaper imports, thanks to the Australian dollar's ... |
| | | ... borrowing", Markit Economics noted. Not a good outlook for consumer demand. Not a good one for the economy overall as household spending accounts for over 65% of UK GDP. Reducing policy accommodation soon risks a further slowdown in consumer spending ... |
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