Dividend Bonanza: Payouts hit $28.5 billion between July and October
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Evening Report
25 Sep 18, 4:30pm (AEST). The Aussie market has had a choppy day’s trade with the ASX 200 closing little changed, down 1 point to 6186. Enery stock among the biggest improvers. PREVIOUS REPORT
Dividend Bonanza
13 Sept 18. Of the ASX 200 companies reporting for the year to June, around 90% of firms declared a dividend. Dividends totalling $21.4 billion will be paid to shareholders in the next four weeks.
Reporting Season Wrap
27 Aug 18. Our analysis has shown that almost 93 per cent of full-year reporting companies produced a profit.
Population Growth
20 Sep 18 Australia’s population expanded by 380,722 people over the year to March 2018 to 24,899,077 people. Overall, Australia’s annual population growth rate fell from 1.58% in December 2017 to 1.55% in March 2018.
Solid lift in August spending
20 Sep 18. The Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator, a measure of economy-wide spending, rose by 0.9% in trend terms in August.
Smallest deficit in a decade
25 Sep 18. The budget deficit for 2017/18 was $10.1 billion or 0.6% of GDP. The rolling annual deficit was the smallest in nine years – since the year to March 2009.
Petrol prices at 4-month highs
24 Sep 18. The national average Australian price of unleaded petrol rose by 0.6 cents to a four-month high of 152.8c/litre.
CommSec iPhone index
11 Sep 18. Do we have a Goldilocks Aussie dollar? According to CommSec iPhone index Australia is now the 4th cheapest country to buy an Apple iPhone 8.
The Week Ahead
21 Sep 18. September concludes with updates on consumer confidence, construction activity, household wealth, job vacancies and credit growth. The US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting is the primary focus for investors this week.
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