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Economic recap: Week to November 19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... depends on the wages outlook. A question that Luci Ellis, RBA Assistant Governor (Economics), tried to address at the ABE Conference in February 2019: "How much and how quickly will they [wages] pick up?" If you look closely, growth in total wages might ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... depends on the wages outlook. A question that Luci Ellis, RBA Assistant Governor (Economic), tried to address at the ABE Conference in February: "How much and how quickly will they [wages] pick up?" "So far, though, the response to that difficulty has ...

Chief economist update: Cut it, cut it now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... haven't increased by much). Just as Luci Ellis - RBA Assistant Governor (Economic) - warned in her address to the ABE Conference in Sydney about this time last year: "Weak income growth can run below consumption growth for a time, but not forever. ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... China, the EU or even Canada but Japan had rarely been on headlines in recent times. It's back again when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to Washington to meet with the US president about North Korea and trade. Early reports were encouraging with Trump ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... that would, at best, slow the BOJ's progress towards achieving 2% inflation." You can read the entire piece here. Maybe now Abe and Kuroda would be able to achieve their growth forecasts of 1.6% for the current fiscal year ending April 2019 (up from ...

Chief economist update: Wagering on wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... and 5.8% at 2016's finish. Still, as Luci Ellis - RBA Assistant Governor (Economic) - asked in her address to the ABE Conference in Sydney last 13 Feb, "how much and how quickly will they [wages] pick up?" In a nutshell, not so much and not so soon ...

Chief economist update: RBA sees wages growth recovering but it's not guaranteed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... one of the three questions Luci Ellis - RBA Assistant Governor (Economic) - tried to answer in her address to the ABE Conference in Sydney yesterday. "How resilient will consumption growth be if income growth stays weak?" Ellis asked. "Our central forecast ...

Morningstar secures $337bn portfolio disclosure commitment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... working hard and with the industry to get this to a place where we are as close to 100% as we can be," Wickham told the conference. "Transparency engenders trust in the industry and we think getting access to those portfolio holdings will help you and ...

Capital stewards create value on Main Street

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... Lazard Asset Management Australia chief executive, Rob Prugue, told the Australian Superannuation Investment (ASI) conference in Cairns that a fund's involvement in capital stewardship may come down to timing and market occurrences. "Capital stewardship ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... consumption, we'll have to see if this single month improvement in confidence continues in the following months. Here, PM Abe's (final?) decision to delay the scheduled increase in the consumption tax next April could provide support.
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