by Stephen Roberts | 22 Sep, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Spending on new and existing housing has started to make a material contribution to Australian economic growth. In Q1 2014, the volume of spending on new and existing housing...
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 | 1 Sep, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Risk Assets were mostly stronger in August, recovering from weakness in the second half of July caused mostly by a worsening geopolitical position in the Ukraine and the Middle...
by Stephen Roberts | 25 Aug, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Our monthly roundup of global and local economic data and events shows diverging paths for the world’s two biggest economies with the US economic expansion gaining traction,...
by Stephen Roberts | 18 Aug, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Soft Australian economic readings have predominated over the past month or two relating mostly to the months of May and June. Q2 GDP will be released early in September and,...