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Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... published on June 6. My basic premise is that were it not for the RBA's concern over adding fuel to overheating property prices (at the time), the Australian central bank would have already cut rates mainly due to the stagnation in wages growth which ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... 2018 or 2019". Our basic premise is that were it not for the RBA's concern over adding fuel to overheating property prices (at the time), the Australian central bank would have already cut rates mainly due to the stagnation in wages growth which ...

Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... longest expansion in 1989 - the one which after the end of that year, the Nikkei-225 index peaked and collapsed and property prices dropped by as much as 70%... and was followed by decades of growth bouncing around the bottom. Ben Ong is the Director ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that the annual growth rate in Australian residential property prices continued to ease in the December 2017 quarter. The "weighted average of eight capital cities" residential property prices ...

Australia ticks boxes for ultra-high-net-worth individuals

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... ultra-wealthy population can be attributed to several factors. Firstly, we've seen significant growth in prime property prices. Secondly, despite recent instability, the equities market has also seen gains over the past year." Globally, ultra-wealthy ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... protectionism, stagnant wages growth and high household debt levels, rising electricity prices and still elevated property prices - and more recently, Barnaby Joyce - these are a few of (not my favourite things) the challenges facing Australia. But true ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... there are places where job growth is good and commercial real estate will still be okay. Cap rates may rise but property prices might not go up much, but I think with a little inflation we'll get higher, gradually increasing rents. In some sense commercial ...

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... general; it also mentioned the potential impact of several European elections; central bank policy; commodity and property prices; and the outlook for China and Australia. SMSF Association National Conference More than 1300 financial advisers and self-managed ...

'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... leads to limited consumer spending that... Were it not for Australia's record high household debt and still high property prices, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would, at the very least, be changing its policy stance towards greater accommodation ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... household spending turns into a vicious cycle. Then again, this would just jack up household debt levels (and property prices) to new heights and raise the risks to Australia's financial stability.