Iron ore prices for May 29, 2020: Everything to the moon. The China PMI has construction registering above 60 again, boom-time levels. This is despite what remains a weak Chinese recovery: But, as usual, what growth in activity there is is focussed on, you guessed it, empty apartments and roads to nowhere. So all good
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Via The Australian: Direct cash grants for home renovations are expected to be a key plank of a multi-billion-dollar building stimulus package to rescue the housing construction industry and save tens of thousands of jobs. Scott Morrison is also expected to announce $1.75bn in federal funding to the NSW government to bring forward the construction
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Via AIG: Still getting worse but at least slowing. I don’t expect a swift recovery. Full report.
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Despite Australian workers facing massive income declines, Labor continues to lobby hard for the superannuation guarantee (SG) to be lifted to 12%: Senior Labor figures said compulsory super, which originated under the Hawke government’s accord process in the 1980s, should be protected as the Morrison government forged a new compact with unions and business to
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Via The Australian: Seeking a “first-mover” advantage in the competitive global education business, Australia’s 39 major universities have put a plan to the government to restart the entry of international students under strict health guidelines. The proposal by Universities Australia, sent to the federal government on Thursday for consideration by the national cabinet, will require
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DXY was weak Friday night: The Australian dollar is right at the breakout line versus USD: EMs were soft: Gold jumped: Oil jumped: Dirt meh: Miners were strong: EM stocks tried: Junk succeeded: Bonds were bid: And stocks: El Trumpo chose not to confront China over Hong Kong with a range of meek measures that will
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CoreLogic’s dwelling value results for May are out at the 5-city level, with values falling 0.48% over the month led by a heavy 0.91% decline across Melbourne: It was the first monthly decline since June 2019: Over the May quarter, dwelling values rose by 0.4% across the major capitals, with growth slowing fast: Falls across
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Via China’s NBS: In May , China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index ( PMI ) was 50.6% , a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month . In terms of enterprise size, the PMI of large enterprises is 51.6% , an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the previous month ; the PMI of
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CoreLogic’s preliminary auction report posted solid fall in the preliminary clearance rate (from 70.9% to 65.9%) off volumes that are still around half of last year’s level: Once final results are received later this week, we are likely to see clearance rates fall to around 60%. Domain’s preliminary auction results were a bit softer; albeit
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Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Why Are Stocks Soaring in the Middle of a Pandemic? – Foreign Policy Protectionism Spreads Globally With the New Coronavirus – WSJ Economists must collaborate courageously with biomedical science, epidemiology, public health to help find solutions to the COVID pandemic – Nature Car dealerships are reopening but the pivot
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