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Week Ahead: Economic Insights
Week Ahead: Economic Insights
Week Ahead: Economic Insights
Week Ahead
Current
Last Week
Last month
Last year
October 8
October 1
September 8
October 8 2014
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
2.18
2.17
2.17
2.70
2.64
2.61
2.68
3.31
AUD/USD
0.7173
0.7055
0.6953
0.8769
Gold ( US$/ounce)
1144.30
1113.70
1121.00
1225.30
54.80
54.50
56.40
79.50
Oil ( US$/barrel)
49.38
44.74
45.94
85.77
All Ordinaries
5241.4
5144.1
5133.5
5241.6
Australia
Date
Event
Consensus
Last release
Monday October 12
Monday October 12
0.1%
~
Tuesday October 13
Tuesday October 13
Wednesday October 14
93.9
Wednesday October 14
5%
Thursday October 15
5,000 / 6.2%
5,000 / 6.2%
Thursday October 15
-1.6%
Friday October 16
Consensus
Last release
$48.2bn
$60.2bn
1.8%
2%
-0.2% / -0.8%
0.0% / -0.8%
0.2%
0.2%
-0.2% / -0.1%
-0.1% / 0.2%
-0.2%
-0.4%
International
Date
Event
Tuesday October 13
Wednesday October 14
Wednesday October 14
Wednesday October 14
Thursday October 15
Friday October 16
A full schedule of domestic economic data awaits, with key indicators scheduled on each day in the coming week.
Overseas, there are top shelf indicators for release in both China and the US over the week.
On Tuesday National Australia Bank releases the September business survey. As the Reserve Bank Governor is
fond of stressing, business conditions and confidence levels are actually close to normal in contrast to the
media-driven perception that sentiment and activity are soft.
On Thursday the ABS releases the monthly job figures. Despite seemingly soft economic growth rates, the job
market has been quite resilient. We expect that employment may have lifted by just 5,000 in September after
strong gains in previous months while the jobless rate may have held steady at 6.2 per cent. Also on Thursday the
ABS will confirm that car sales were at record highs in September. And on Friday, the Reserve Bank will hand
down the bi-annual Financial Stability Review with most interest in comments on the housing sector