by Cameron Rae | 30 Oct, 2013 | News
Laminar Group has arranged senior funding for Bluestone Capital Management’s recently priced NZ$67.834M RMBS transaction. Read more… by Cameron Rae | 30 Oct, 2013 | Market Commentary
by Stephen Roberts | 28 Oct, 2013 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
The Australian economic releases and surveys released in October continue to show that the economy has been growing below potential (3.1% average annual GDP growth), but the releases that provide more of a clue about likely future economic activity mostly continue to... by Stephen Roberts | 23 Oct, 2013 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
The Q3 CPI was higher than expected and up 1.2% q-o-q (consensus 0.8%) although the annual change is only 2.2% y-o-y. The main causes of the bigger than expected rise were sharp increases in components related to transport, +2.4% q-o-q (mostly petrol prices up 7.6%... by Stephen Roberts | 21 Oct, 2013 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
The suspension of the US debt ceiling deadline until mid-January allows financial markets to focus on other influences on asset prices for a few months. One of the more important of those influences is that notwithstanding the lumps and bumps in the US economic...