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The negatives in the positive jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... 0.31% in July - slower from 0.36% in June and 0.39% in May. Having said that, the recent surge in Australian business confidence and conditions could help reverse the decelerating trend in employment growth going forward.

Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... jumping one third from 3.1% to 4.4%. This is consistent with the improvement in the NAB business conditions and business confidence survey for June. Even though housing remains the bigger credit component with 62% of total credit as against 33% for business ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... (100 being neutral) for the eight straight month. But back to the NAB survey. Rising business conditions and business confidence (up to +9 in June from +8 in May) leads improvement in consumer confidence as buoyant business conditions and more optimistic ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... 49.5 and the best reading since March this year. In Japan, the BOJ's quarterly Tankan survey - a measure of business confidence - showed the index for large manufacturers rose to a better than expected reading of 17 in the second quarter from 12 in the ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... positive business conditions for only the second time since 2010..." However, the news is not so good in terms of business confidence with the index dropping six points to reading of +7 in May from +13 in April - a 46.3% drop in percentage terms - "suggesting ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... improvement across states and industries and mainly driven by higher employment and profitability conditions. The business confidence jumped 7 points to +13 in April - the highest level since September 2010. Elevated business confidence and conditions ...

Confidence slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... the near-term" - underscores a bit of concern and stems from the contradicting message from the reading on business confidence - down to +6 in March (at par with its long-run average) from +7 in February and +9 in January. As NAB chief economist Alan ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... services companies across the globe - tells us so. The latest survey (conducted on 9-27 February) showed global business confidence rising to a two-and-a-half year high - since mid-2104 -- with the net balance (optimists less pessimists) jumping by 20% ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... points to further improvement in the jobless rate. This is an indication that's further underscored by rising business confidence. The CBI business optimism index surged to a reading of +15 in the March quarter from -8 in the previous quarter and the ...

Good for now worrying for later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... the surprisingly strong gains seen in the previous month..." This was the opening line of the NAB report on business confidence and business conditions for February. How much were given back? Business confidence dropped 3 points to a reading of 7 last ...