by Stephen Roberts | 24 Mar, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Stronger housing activity is a key part of the accelerating Australian economic growth story through 2014 and 2015, helping to provide some direct offset to the negative impact...
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 | 13 Jan, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. The economic tide is on the turn, but not the way the official family (Treasury and RBA) is expecting. The official view is that the dominant force influencing Australian...
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%...
