by Stephen Roberts | 19 Jan, 2015 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive roundup of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. After discussing last week the fine line between a ‘glass half full’ view of Australian economic prospects and a ‘glass half empty’ view, the latest employment and job vacancy...
by Stephen Roberts | 10 Nov, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Australian employment growth is unacceptably soft, notwithstanding the latest estimate for October on the revised seasonal adjustment factors that showed a rise of 24,100 in...
by Stephen Roberts | 29 Sep, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive round up of the week, listen to Stephens’s full report here. Our monthly roundup of global and local economic data and events shows continuing improvement in the US economy, but patchy to soft economic readings in China and Europe. 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 | 10 Jun, 2014 | Economic Weekly, Laminar Economist Stephen Roberts
For a more comprehensive roundup of the week, listen to Stephen’s full report here. Australian annual economic growth pushed above long-term 3.1% trend growth in Q1 2014 and by quite a margin accelerating to 3.5% y-o-y from 2.7% y-o-y in Q4 2013. Above trend...
