Weekly market update – week ending 18 March, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The recovery rally continued over the last week helped by a combination of the Fed further delaying interest rate hikes and... Read more continue reading

Employment consolidates after stellar gains

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Labour force Employment rose by 300 in February after falling by 7,400 in January (previously reported as a 7,900 fall in jobs). Full-time jobs rose by 15,900 while part-time jobs... Read more continue reading

Usage of credit card limits at 14-year low

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Credit & Debit cards; Weekly petrol price Petrol: Last week the key Singapore gasoline price recorded the biggest percentage increase in a year, up by US$6.60 or 13.6 per cent... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 11 March, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw most share markets pull back partly due to a perverse reaction to the ECB and partly (or... Read more continue reading

Chinese food prices lift; Wealth up again

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Chinese inflation data; Revised jobs data; Modellers’ database Chinese inflation: Chinese consumer prices rose by 1.6 per cent in February to be up 2.3 per cent over the year (forecast... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 4 March, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen the recovery in risk assets continue with shares pushing higher, bond yields backing up, credit spreads... Read more continue reading

Fastest economic growth in two years

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National accounts Faster growth: The Australian economy grew by 0.6 per cent in the December quarter after an upwardly-revised 1.1 per cent increase in the September quarter (previously up 0.9... Read more continue reading

Inflation targeting: Good strategy, but poor structure

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The monetary policy experiment of inflation targeting has failed to produce a more stable macroeconomic environment. The failure doesn’t stem from the wrong objective, but from the poor structure of... Read more continue reading

Corporate Australia adjusts to new realities

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Corporate Profit Season Each ‘earnings season’ or ‘profit-reporting season’ CommSec tracks all the earnings results of ASX 200 companies to obtain a comprehensive picture of the aggregate health of Corporate... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 26 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The bounce back in global shares continued over the last week led by the US share market which has broken above... Read more continue reading