Tough or timid?
Budget setting
Main numbers
Major measures
Winners & losers
Issue: China
Issue: Jobs
Issue: Interest rates
Forecasts
Craig James
Chief Economist, CommSec, May 2011
Important
p information
LLastt Year
Y This Y
Thi Year Nextt Year
N Y Andd
A
2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13
Underlying
y g budget
g (($ billion)) -$54.8 -$49.4 -$22.6 $3.5
Economic Growth (% change) 2.3 2.25 4.00 3.75
Inflation (% change) 3.1 3.25 2.75 3.00
Wages (% change) 30
3.0 4 00
4.00 4 00
4.00 4 25
4.25
Unemployment (%, June quarter) 5.2 5.00 4.75 4.50
Stimulus & slower growth…
…from
from surplus to deficit
Major
j measures
Jobs,
J b J Jobs,
b Jobs
J b
Skilled migration
Infrastructure spending
Savings
Sa gs totatotalling
g $22
$
billion over five years
Small business measures
Assistance for those
doing it tough
Winners & losers
Winners?
Job seekers
Businesses that offer training and placement
services
Apprentices
Small Business
Regional Australia
Losers
Salary sacrifice vehicle change
Dependent Spouse Tax Offset change
Global perspective
p p
Issue: Ascent of China
So What?
China leads the wayy Exchange rates, trade,
sharemarket,
h k iinterest rates
Drivers of world economy -
Contribution to growth 2011
China 0.81%
United States 0.74%
India 0.18%
Japan 0.14%
Newly Industrialised Asia* 0.13%
Germany 0.13%
ASEAN 5 # 0.12%
Brazil 0.11%
R
Russia
i 0 10%
0.10%
United Kingdom 0.08%
France 0.07%
Canada 0 05%
0.05%
Other countries 1.70%
World 4.40%
Source: IMF & CommSec
* Newly industrialised Asia – Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore
and South Korea
# ASEAN 5 – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and
Vietnam
Issue: Tight job market
So What?
Job market Reasons to spend;
pressures for
f business
b i
Carbon
C b ttax – no details…yet
d t il t
Mining tax – not finalised…yet
Consumer conservatism – will it last?
Reserve
ese e Bank
a – view
e oon tthe
e Budget?
udget
Politics – will the measures be passed
China
Chi – boom
b or bust?
b t?
Resource projects – can all the work be done?
Summing
g up
p
Right
Ri ht b
budget
d t for
f the
th times
ti
Discipline required to achieve
surplus
l
Economy will lift later in 2011
Rate hikes remain on agenda
Focus on opportunities, not
risks
CommSec forecasts
Forecasts
Economic growth 2.40% in 2010/11 4.10% in 2011/12
Unemployment 4.75-5.00%,
4.75 5.00%, mid 2011 4.50-5.00%,
4.50 5.00%, end 2011