by Stephen Roberts | 27 Apr, 2015 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive roundup of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Global economic readings were again mixed strength through April with positive surprises in the economic data, mostly confined to Europe and Australia. The monthly data readings...
by Stephen Roberts | 13 Oct, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Over the past month or so, views in global financial markets have been very mixed, ranging from US growth being strong enough and having enough improvement in its labour market...
by Stephen Roberts | 15 Sep, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. At face value, the Australian economy seems to be powering along registering 3.1% y-o-y GDP growth in Q2 with employment lifting by a record 121,000 in August, reducing the...
by Stephen Roberts | 11 Aug, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. We are pushing out our forecast of the first 25bp cash rate hike by the RBA to November 2015 from March 2015. We make the change taking account of the weaker than expected July...
by Stephen Roberts | 14 Jul, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Whether the softer patch in the labour market over the past month or two stays soft, or takes a turn for the better over coming months is likely to hold the key to the outlook...