Market Insights

Brighter international growth prospects

Last week we wrote about how Australia’s growth performance had become a tottery balancing act weighed by gloom showing no signs of lifting in household spending. In contrast to Australia, the world’s biggest economy, the United States, is showing signs of... Read more...

A tottery balancing act

Australia’s record breaking continuous economic expansion has entered its 29th year with the Q3 2019 GDP report. That is a significant and positive achievement. Over recent years, however, the achievement has started to tarnish. Real annual GDP growth has run... Read more...

Monetary policy returning to normality

As global economic growth continues to improve major central are looking at the pathways they might take to return monetary policy settings from abnormally accommodative to normal. They face many challenges in the next few years taking monetary policy from abnormal... Read more...

Weekly Economic Podcast – 18 September 2017

Laminar Capital’s Senior Economist Stephen Roberts give his insights into the capital markets for this week. Click to listen to our economic update. http://laminarcapital.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Market-Commentary-20170918.mp3 The post Weekly Economic Podcast... Read more...

GDP – All seasons in one

Australian GDP growth lifted to a respectable 0.8% q-o-q in Q2 from an anemic 0.3% q-o-q in Q1. If we annualised our GDP growth the way the Americans do, growth would have risen to an above long-term trend 3.2% in Q2 from 1.2% in Q1 implying a big improvement and... Read more...

Weekly Economic Podcast – 11 September 2017

Laminar Capital’s Senior Economist Stephen Roberts give his insights into the capital markets for this week. Click to listen to our economic update. http://laminarcapital.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Market-Commentary-20170911.mp3 The post Weekly Economic Podcast... Read more...

Weekly Economic Podcast – 4 September 2017

Laminar Capital’s Senior Economist Stephen Roberts give his insights into the capital markets for this week. Click to listen to our economic update. http://laminarcapital.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Market-Commentary-20170904.mp3 The post Weekly Economic Podcast... Read more...