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Economic recap: Week to September 3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
... report showed the economy grew by a better-than-expected 0.7% in the second quarter of the year, taking Australia's annual GDP growth rate up, up (and away) to 9.6% -- the highest year-on-year growth rate on record (1960s is all I have). Australia ...

Cracking the data science code

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... science," she said. Ryan explains that the use of unknown factors like the relationship between 10-year government bond rates and GDP for example, is driving the data-generating process. "Is it a linear relationship; is it a quadratic ratio relationship ...

Economic recap: Week to August 13

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
... sector economists and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have already penciled in a contraction in Australian third quarter GDP even before the restrictions were extended and broadened. How long these go on for will decide how deep the contraction will ...

Delta to impact real estate market: Analysis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... years ago." Meanwhile, Sydney's ongoing lockdown and stubborn case numbers is predicted to lock in another negative quarter of GDP growth for the Australian economy, reversing the positive impact seen earlier in 2021 when the elimination approach was ...

Economic recap: Week to August 6

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... has been stronger than was earlier expected. The recent outbreaks of the virus are, however, interrupting the recovery and GDP is expected to decline in the September quarter. The experience to date has been that once virus outbreaks are contained, the ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... quarter from 1.1% in the previous one. The weighted median CPI inflation sped up to 1.7% from 1.3%. The advance estimate of US GDP growth and the Fed's July FOMC meeting took centre stage last week. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported ...

Economic recap: Week to July 23

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... the economy of up to $1 billion weekly. Both agree that the longer the lockdown, the higher the probability that Australian GDP would contract in the September quarter. The uncertainty created by the Delta outbreak rendered the minutes of the RBA's ...

New emerging markets ESG fund at Dimensional

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... across 24 emerging market countries, accounting for about 13% of total global market capitalisation and about a third of global GDP. "The strategy is designed to meaningfully reduce exposure to greenhouse gas emissions and potential emissions from fossil ...

Chief economist update: Delta variant infects Australian economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
... quarter of growth since the pandemic-induced recession in the March and June quarters of 2020 - taking the annual growth in GDP up to 1.1% and national output above the level it was before the coronavirus struck. Australia's labour market stats indicate ...

Super tax concessions to outstrip Age Pension by 2040: Report

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... Age Pension, according to the fifth Intergenerational Report released today. The government currently spends about 2% of the GDP on superannuation tax concessions. This will rise to 2.9% in the next 40 years, the report said. At the same time, as the ...