Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
American midfielder who began his MLS career with Sporting Kansas City in 2012.
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth8 March 1988
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There's a few areas in the economy that aren't doing as well, such as retailing. The central bank may keep interest rates on hold this year.
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My gut instinct is that the Australian dollar will wobble a bit lower from here. The interest rate differential is slowly being eroded. The Australian dollar is now less attractive to overseas investors.
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With everyone chasing yield, if that inversion does grow to 10 or 20 basis points, people will have to reconsider whether they should be investing in the long end or back at the short end, where they can get a higher rate. With the Fed putting rates up at the short end, that's going to be attractive to people with a short-term investment horizon.
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Payrolls is one of the main indicators of how strong the economy will be and a strong number means that there will be more rate hikes from the Fed. Yields are heading up across the curve.
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The central bank is telling the market they have more rate hikes to come and the risk is that it puts rates up more than investors think.
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The Medley report brought down expectations of how far the Fed will go, but we think there's enough strength in the economy for the Fed to raise rates right until May. Yields have to go higher. It's hard to justify buying Treasuries.
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You can write off the chance of the Reserve Bank cutting rates this year and well into next year. Good profitability means you can hire people.
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Primarily, junk. But you can see just by the numbers, the growth is there for the fresh stuff.
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People spend in their leisure time and in the modern economy people are more mobile. But it goes both ways. We get a substantial amount of our turnover from visitors.
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We're working with the six states to help them develop strategies.
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We are appreciative of the additional funding we've gotten this year. We'll build it into the budget the best way we can. We're not anticipating any cuts.
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The trend should be a weakening one for the Australian dollar.