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The lower-than-expected increase in nonfarm payroll employment, along with declining job openings and quits, suggest that wage pressures are unlikely...
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Following a long period of stagnation, machinery & equipment investment has experienced strong growth since the start of 2021 (Chart...
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Housing affordability is an active topic in the media and is increasingly part of political discord. Key metrics are running...
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The unemployment rate spiked to 4.1% in January, suggesting the nascent deterioration in the labour market was gathering momentum. However,...
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The sustainability of a building is best measured through its carbon footprint. This has two main aspects – the embodied...
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The Albanese government announced a significant restructure of the personal income tax schedule. The stage three tax cuts legislated in...
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Extensive academic research shows the importance of central bank independence in reducing inflation. Those institutions with strong operational independence from...
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Our latest global relative return index (RRI) signals that risk-adjusted investment opportunities in commercial real estate (CRE) should start to...
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A second Trump presidency would directly harm US manufacturing through two channels: repeal of President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA);...
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Lower house prices and falling mortgage rates will reduce stubbornly high shelter inflation and help return headline CPI inflation to...
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The relatively tepid 1.6% annualized gain in Q1 GDP does not present cause for concern, nor does it mean the...
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The biggest surprise from the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting had nothing to do with interest rate...
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Our business cycle indicator shows the economy hit a rough patch at the start of the year but there is...
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This Research Briefing sets out the first of four scenarios for South Africa's general election on May 29. In this...
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As expected, the BoJ maintained its policy rate at 0%-0.1% at Friday's meeting. With more confidence on the ongoing wage-driven...
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Our sentiment data, developed with Penta, suggests that UK private sector wage growth slowed sharply in March and early-April. If...
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Our new forecast assumes a slower euro appreciation against the dollar over the coming years than we previously anticipated. Relative...
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Odds are that there will not be anything from the upcoming meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee that would...
The 2024 federal budget projects a steady diet of wider deficits over the next five years, adding new spending only...
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Our baseline forecast is for world food commodity prices to register an annual decline this year, in aggregate, reducing pressure...
