by Stephen Roberts | Jul 28, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
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Our monthly roundup of global and local economic data and events shows a distinct strengthening in the world’s two biggest economies, the United States and China, but still very fragile growth in continental Europe and mixed-strength economic readings in Australia. Geopolitical concerns remained prominent, notably in the Ukraine and the Middle East. The world’s major central banks, including the RBA, are mostly trying to support economic recovery, leaving official interest rates low as long as possible.
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by Stephen Roberts | Jul 28, 2014 | Market Commentary
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by Stephen Roberts | Jul 21, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
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Last week we pointed out the pivotal role that employment will play in assessing the outlook for both, economic growth and inflation. As a result, the relative strength of the labour market is likely to provide an important clue to when the RBA may move the cash rate and in which direction. However, the most important economic variable for RBA rate decision making is still the inflation rate, more accurately the RBA’s own forecast of how inflation will travel over the next two years.
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by Cameron Rae | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Fund returned 1.09% over the month of June, delivered 2.77% for the previous three months and 12.38% over the past 12 months. The Net Asset Value (NAV) of the Fund, as at 30 June 2014, was $47.6 m1 and the cum redemption price was 1.3847362. The solid return... Read more...
