by Stephen Roberts | 28 Jan, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Inflation was surprisingly high in Q4 2013 and allowing that Q3 was surprisingly high too, headline CPI inflation was much higher than expected throughout the second half of... by Stephen Roberts | 22 Jan, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
The Q4 CPI was much higher than expected, up 0.8% qoq (consensus 0.5%) after the 1.2% qoq result in Q3 which itself was higher than expected too. The two main underlying readings, the trimmed mean and weighted median readings were well above 0.6% consensus forecast at... by Stephen Roberts | 20 Jan, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. A rather nasty December labour force report seemed to contradict our view expressed last week that the Australian economy is starting to improve more than widely expected. In...