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- Jul 29 2021
Indonesia: Building and Construction in Indonesia 2021-2025: July 2021 Update
BPS's latest data shows construction activity plunged 19.6% in 2020, a significant downgrade from their preliminary estimate of 10.5%. We expect work on delayed projects from last year to ramp up thi...
- Jul 29 2021
The Outlook for Residential Land in Brisbane July 2021
The house and land market in Greater Brisbane is enjoying robust conditions on a number of fronts, from building activity to prices. The near-term outlook remains robust but activity and prices are fo...
- Jul 27 2021
- Jul 23 2021
Groundhog day: Sydney lockdown will shrink output in Q3
Sydney is almost a month into a hard lockdown that has yet to quell the current COVID outbreak. The state government’s pursuit of no community spread of the highly transmissible delta strain, coupled...
- Jul 16 2021
Labour market turnover the next step in the recovery
This week’s data provided more confirmation that the labour market recovery is broadly complete, and there is still enough momentum to take the market to a much tighter position than it was in before...
- Jul 16 2021
Adelaide Commercial Property Prospects 2021-2031
The Adelaide office market is back on the road to recovery after a brief and minor setback. However, progress is likely to be slow in the face of considerable supply additions.
- Jul 13 2021
Sydney lockdown a headwind to growth in Q3. Forecast downgraded slightly to 5.1% in 2021.
The recent run of data has been positive, with the labour market weathering the withdrawal of policy support, consumer spending remaining steady through lockdowns, and the trade surplus widening due t...
- Jul 09 2021
Accounting for the strength in job vacancies
The labour market has staged an impressive rebound since the height of the pandemic a year ago, with most headline measures having recovered to their pre-crisis level. However, these measures are limi...
- Jul 07 2021
Mining in Australia - Jul 2021
The mining investment cycle is set to continue its rebound, following the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing trade tensions with China. The after-effects of the Oil and Gas boo...
Latest Global Analysis
- Jul 26 2021
Coronavirus Watch: Delta dilemmas
The spread of the Delta coronavirus variant appears to have usurped inflation as the key concern. The Delta strain will lead to a bumpier and more uncertain path for the global recovery, but for now w...
- Jul 26 2021
Business investment is flowing, but it’s not booming
The recent rebound in business investment has led to speculation that it may mark the start of a sustained boom in capex. We are sceptical and expect capex in the advanced economies to fall short of t...
- Jul 20 2021
Inside Frontier Markets: HY bonds are still a buy
The gradual return to pre-pandemic levels seems to have marked a pause, but we think there is still value in high-yield sovereign bonds. Pressure from core rates is likely to be moderate and most fron...
- Jul 20 2021
The global housing boom in historical perspective
Our estimates suggest that house prices in advanced economies may be around 10% overvalued versus long-term trends, albeit with considerable variation between economies. This boom, while not as pronou...
- Jul 16 2021
Asset prices may hold the key to consumer prospects
Buoyant asset markets may point to a sizeable upside for the consumer recovery, based on our analysis of previous sharp shifts in savings rates.
- Jul 14 2021
Improving supply should dampen metals prices
Metals supply has been slower to recover from the pandemic than demand, with disruption to supply chains, social distancing, and higher shipping costs all contributing. Consequently, prices have surge...
- Jul 12 2021
Coronavirus Watch: Delta risks mount
Concerns within markets about the impact of the Delta variant on the economy is in our view warranted. We have long warned that vaccinations would be unlikely to trigger a smooth transition to normalc...
- Jul 08 2021
Two scenarios for deeper China trade decoupling
US-China trade decoupling has already been considerable in recent years. But what would happen if it deepened and broadened to other trade partners? Our analysis suggests that while the likelihood of...
- Jul 08 2021
Demographic forces will swell global financial imbalances
International capital flows have created massive global imbalances in nations’ net foreign assets. We expect these imbalances will swell over the coming decades, affecting current accounts, exchange r...
- Jul 08 2021
Net Foreign Assets after the pandemic
One of the biggest yet least understood features of the world economy are the huge financial imbalances across countries. In the decades prior to the coronavirus pandemic, international net foreign...
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