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- Mar 03 2021
Population outlook firms on vaccine rollout
It is expected that Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) will crash to an outflow of 80,000 in FY2021. The recovery from this point is expected to be sharper than previously forecast, with NOM reb...
- Mar 02 2021
New Zealand: Building and Construction in New Zealand 2021-2025: Q1 2021 Update
The construction sector again surprised to the upside, remaining more resilient than previously expected. Total building approvals (constant 2009 prices) fell 2.1% y/y (up from a previous -5.1% y/y)...
- Mar 02 2021
Thailand: Building and Construction in Thailand 2021-2025: March 2021 Update
Total construction work done in 2020 grew by 1.6%, led solely by an 11% growth in the civil engineering sector that offset the contractions of 8.5% and 7.9% respectively in the residential and non-res...
- Mar 01 2021
Perth Commercial Property Market 2021-2031
The recovery in the Perth office market suffered a setback in H2 2020 as already-elevated vacancy rates climbed higher. CBD stated rents remained broadly flat, but incentives (already high) increa...
- Feb 26 2021
Retail Property 2021 – 2031
The retail property sector has had a tumultuous year. There were both big winners and losers arising from unusual, pandemic-related, customer spending patterns. As conditions normalise, the underl...
- Feb 26 2021
Road Construction in Australia 2021 - 2035 February update
The value of road construction work done declined 4.5% year-on-year in the September 2020 quarter. Activity was pulled down by weakness in privately funded activity as the NorthConnexproject approac...
- Feb 25 2021
Long Term Forecasts Report - February 2021
The Australian economy’s recovery from the COVID-19 shock has been swifter than expected. The labour market recovery has outpaced expectations, with the initial shock well-contained by prompt acti...
- Feb 24 2021
Brisbane Industrial Property Prospects 2021-2031
The Brisbane industrial market is showing many signs of improvement. Occupier demand has picked up and should remain robust over the short to medium term. However, the quantum of completions will pre...
- Feb 23 2021
Maintenance in Australia - 2021
Continued strong growth in mining maintenance expenditure saw Australia’s maintenance market grow by 2.2% over FY20 to an estimated $48.3bn. Looking ahead, government stimulus in response to the coron...
Latest Global Analysis
- Mar 03 2021
EM currencies gain as growth returns, but boom unlikely
Emerging market currencies tend to move with the economic cycle. Consequently, after losing ground in 2020, they have recently shown signs of recovery. While growth should support EM currencies during...
- Mar 01 2021
Global: Bond rout will end, but the real debate is just beginning
The current market sell-off should be contained with a strong verbal reiteration of existing forward guidance from central bankers in the coming days. If policy makers fluff their lines, then we would...
- Mar 01 2021
Coronavirus Watch: Industrial strength has legs
Among the key themes for 2021 we identified late last year was that the industrial sector would remain a source of strength. Since then, manufacturers have performed even a bit better than we had expe...
- Feb 26 2021
Why today’s inflation spike isn’t likely to last
Inflation is picking up across advanced economies (AEs) and emerging markets (EMs), but the data suggests this will again prove temporary. We see no signs of lasting pressures that might turn a tempor...
- Feb 22 2021
Coronavirus Watch: EMs could be 2021’s big surprise
We expect the global economy to exit its recent soft patch in Q2 as falling Covid cases and ongoing vaccine rollouts allow authorities to ease restrictions. Economies with especially tight curbs on ac...
- Feb 22 2021
Short-sighted markets underplay long-Covid scarring
The market is not pricing in cross-economy differences in long-Covid scarring. Changes in EM sovereign spreads since the start of the pandemic are hardly correlated with long Covid vulnerabilities, wh...
- Feb 16 2021
Scorecard shows vulnerability to supply chain disruption
Disruption to global supply chains has resurfaced in recent months, as material shortages and freight delivery delays have damaged manufacturers’ ability to meet the strong rebound in global goods dem...
- Feb 15 2021
Coronavirus Watch: The winners from ending lockdowns
The pace and timing of relaxation to coronavirus-related restrictions will depend on a number of unpredictable factors. We use a range of relevant indicators to produce a scorecard assessing which cou...
- Feb 15 2021
Financial flows resilient in 2020 but FDI drop to hit growth
Cross-border financial flows, including to emerging economies, held up well in 2020. We saw few signs of a repeat of the international credit crunch of 2008-2009, largely because of the successful eff...
- Feb 15 2021
Food forethought on EM inflation risks
Risks of a pickup in EM inflation over the next few months are significant. For a short while, some strong upward forces, such as commodity price recoveries and still depreciated currencies, could hol...
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