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Economics

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
Another stimulus package for Japan; Oil's bad news keeps coming; UK inflation climbs to 0.5%; Australia nears the property bubble zone.

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
FTA with Indonesia gets closer; On a road near you soon, driverless cars; Despite low inflation, population still main house price factor; Dwelling approvals fall in June.

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
Centenarians our fastest growing age group; Stable outlook for NZ banking; Private not public debt is Australia's problem.

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
AOFM to buy back short-dated bonds; global investors' unrealistic expectations; BoJ expected to go even deeper into negative interest rates

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Record exports of Australian beef; public sector picking up economic slack; UK property's Brexit hit; China's internationalising renmimbi.

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
Inflation crashes to 1pct; Peterson Institute's fiscal warning to Australia; BP losses reduce as debt jumps 24pct; Record investment into CEFC projects.

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
Brexit concerns push hedge funds to A$4tr; World's expanding infrastructure investment gap; Chinese own only 6% of US govt debt

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
China's GDP to grow 56% by 2021, twice the rate of the US; India's inflation; global stock market hits A$80tr

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
NZ lifts home deposit minimums; US financial literacy improves but is still appalling; US oil production boom.

Diversity isn't going to a Chinese restaurant: PwC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
Diversity in corporate governance means more than the board of directors going to a Chinese restaurant now and then, according to PwC partner Ken Woo.