by Stephen Roberts | 30 Sep, 2013 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
This is the first of our monthly reviews of the Australian economy containing also an update of our forecasts. Almost all regular economic readings produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Reserve Bank deal with the past, some the quite distant...
by Stephen Roberts | 23 Sep, 2013 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
The main message from the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) decision not to start tapering its $US85 billion bond and mortgage buying program (QE) is one of concern that US economic growth is still not improving sustainably. To back up this point the Fed lowered its annual...
by Cameron Rae | 20 Sep, 2013 | Laminar, News, Press
The Laminar Credit Opportunities Fund was awarded the 2013 hedge fund of the year at a gala event in Sydney last week. The fund was also named best Australian fixed income and credit fund. Fund manager Chris Black said he was delighted with the two awards. “It’s a...
by Stephen Roberts | 16 Sep, 2013 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
The indicators of Australian economic activity are diverging more distinctly of late between sharply improving forward looking indicators being business and consumer sentiment, housing finance commitments, the shape of the yield curve, share market performance and...
by Stephen Roberts | 12 Sep, 2013 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
The August labour force report was softer than expected with employment falling by 10,800 (consensus +10,000), a second consecutive monthly fall. In trend terms employment is falling slightly on a monthly basis. The unemployment rate rose one notch to 5.8% in line...