Craig James
Craig James
Jesse Craig Jamesis a former American sports commentator on the ABC and ESPN television networks...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth2 January 1961
CityJacksonville, TX
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Over the past four months, employment has been volatile, rising by just 12,000 over the period.
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Our view is that the Australian share market is overdue for a correction.
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It is clear that the level of interest rates are at a sweet spot, neither serving to boost economic activity nor acting as a brake on growth.
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What we are starting to see are the motors running. Momentum is very important in any recovery and that is what we are starting to see in Japan at the moment.
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If it were to extend these sort of gains for the year, it would have 40% growth. Gains of that sort of magnitude just aren't sustainable.
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The recovery in consumer spending is in its infancy. Retail growth in real terms has been the weakest in 12 years and is just picking itself up from the bottom. The car market is still weak, with seasonally adjusted sales falling 2 per cent in March after a 2 per cent fall in February.
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There is only so long business can absorb higher production costs. Something has got to give and what's most likely to give is prices.
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This time around we believe that the Bank of Japan is going to learn from past experience. We believe that the Japanese government is going to learn from past experience.
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The Reserve Bank can just about shut up shop until 2006...the two remaining board meetings (this year) will prove nonevents.
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At least we got some physical penalties, ... We've been taking a lot of penalties, but at least there were some aggressive ones. Special teams have been winning us games, but their penalty kill did a very good job against our power play.
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Providing the economy continues to grow and earnings continue to rise and look set to continue to rise then we are going to see the share market respond to that, and indeed that is what we are seeing in terms of Japan.
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We had very solid gains over December and some profit taking is not out of the question at this time of the year.
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It is harder to find value. But if the earnings season ends up showing that profitability remains super-strong, then investors would continue to drive their money into share markets, rather than other asset classes.
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Nothing's fundamentally changed since the end of last year.