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You are here: Home / Blog / Monday Smackdown: Rents and the new normal, employment jumps and much more…

Monday Smackdown: Rents and the new normal, employment jumps and much more…

June 15, 2015 by Jon Giaan

Rents go new normal

According to RP Data, rents nationally grew by only 1.5% in the year to May – in line with falling yields in every asset market. Rents in Canberra, Darwin and Perth actually recorded falls.

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Employment jumps…

We had stronger than expected jobs figures last week, and the unemployment rate fell from 6.2 to 6.0%. Still the envy of the world. A lot of the jobs gain though has been in part time employment, so it’s not quite as strong as it seems.

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… but wages doing nothing much

Wages are still growing at a snails pace though…

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… but are in line with smaller increases in overall GDP

But this is just a reality of life in developed mature economy. Big gains are harder to come by. This is the new normal. Rents growth will be soft, and so will output and wages growth.

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Business Confidence strikes a brighter tone…

Business confidence has rallied to its highest levels in nearly a year, while conditions also lifted.

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… Because they’re making more money.

Company profits lifted, with ex-mining doing some heavy lifting against tougher times for miners. This should help the investment outlook.

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The Aussie dollar weaker, but not weak enough

The Aussie dollar continues to fall, as the US dollar rallies. But the Aussie battler is still strong by international standards, and though we’ve fallen against the US, other currencies (the blue line below) have fallen more. Keeps the door open to further rate cuts.

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It’s all about investors

This chart is sending a lot of blame investors’ way. This is housing finance, with investors on the break away.

Note though, that this doesn’t accommodate the shift from FHBs to First time investors, so it’s not as bad as people will tell you it is….

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Have a great week

JG

Filed Under: Blog, Monday Smackdown

Comments

  1. Tyler says

    June 15, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    Translation

  2. Tyler says

    June 15, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    Things are getting worse. Dollar remains stubbornly high. Further rate cuts will lead to more investors pumping up the market hard. If you didn’t buy in within the last 12 months you missed out on winning the lottery. Next time perhaps…

  3. Tom says

    June 16, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    Where would the value of the AUD be if the major economies had not devalued their currencies with Money Printing?
    Should we print more AUD in response?

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