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Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... services indices rose to three-year high readings of 59.9 and 58.7, respectively in March, while its performance of construction index reached an all-time high of 61.8 in the same month. Wait there's more. While Australia's international trade ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... "Worrying signals from the survey's forward-looking indicators make it almost impossible to sugarcoat the Construction PMI data in June. In particular, new orders dropped to the largest extent for just over 10 years, while demand for construction ...

Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... indicators. Sharp declines were experienced by PMI, almost all sectors, in retail, sales, manufacturing, services, in construction. Then we had declines in industrial production, in capital goods production. The PMI in exports orders also declined. Also ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... in October from 52.1 in the previous month for its fourth straight month of slowdown. October figures for the construction PMI are not yet available but this too has slowed from a reading of 60.5 in July to 55.3 in August and 54.7 in September. Consensus ...

Profit margin squeeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... that: "Respondents to the Australian PSI in the business-oriented sub-sectors noted positive demand coming from the construction and mining sectors, predominantly in the eastern states. Respondents in retail and hospitality are reporting reduced spending ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... in the sectors it surveys - manufacturing up to 59.2 in April from 57.5 in March; services up to 53.0 from 51.7; construction up to 51.9 from 51.2. And just yesterday, we received more indications that Australia is travelling on course. The NAB business ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... increased by 1.2% but was slower than the June quarter's 1.5% rise. Hourly labour costs increased the most in the construction sector (up 2.0%) followed by the non-business economy (1.8%). The industry and services sectors also registered increases of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... services sector produced zero growth in the September quarter compared with a 1.2% increase in the previous quarter; construction sector growth slowed to 1.6% from 2.0%. The Singaporean government expects GDP growth of 1.0% - 1.5% (downgraded from earlier ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
Australia construction work done This will be a drag. A drag on Australian third quarter GDP that is. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that the value of total construction work done fell by 4.9% in the September quarter following a ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... year to September following August's 6.1% drop and marking the fourth consecutive month of year-on-year fall. UK construction PMI The Markit/CIPS UK construction PMI rose to its best level since March this year, up to a reading of 52.6 in October from ...
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