“Ivan writes for NAB's daily and weekly economics and market reports, and regularly speaks with the media about the economy and financial market.”
Ivan Colhoun is Chief Economist, Markets for National Australia Bank. He joined NAB in November 2014 and is responsible for the Australian Economics function within the Global Markets Research team.
Ivan has had a long and varied career in Economics. He received a Bachelor of Economics with Honours from the University of Tasmania and commenced his career at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
He spent 15 years at Deutsche Bank finishing as Chief Economist for Australia and Head of Global Markets Research for Australia/NZ, before following his passion for aviation by joining Qantas as Chief Economist.
Most recently, Ivan was Chief Economist for Australia for ANZ Bank. He has also consulted to SEEK, Virgin Australia and IATA.
We examine the aggregate and disaggregated measures of capacity utilisation in the NAB Business Surveys in greater detail in this week’s Australian Markets Weekly.
This week we consider tomorrow’s RBA board meeting, but also US data releases that are likely to be more relevant for how the US economy and labour markets develop over the next 6-12 months.
This week we examine some possible budget assumptions for Australian growth, inflation, wages, interest rates and the $A for 2023-24 as well as the context, thinking behind and risks to the forecasts
The Markets Economics team looks at the progress rebalancing supply and demand in Australia and find that Australia is likely to lag the progress being made in the US on rents, energy and wages/services.
This week, we consider the likelihood of further tightening by the RBA and what impact - if any - the recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank might have.
With many competing influences in the global macro backdrop, in this Weekly we take a step back and outline a framework for how we are making sense of the world.
In today’s weekly, we suggest a framework for sifting through the various forces buffeting the 2023 outlook and pose five big questions that we think need to be answered to judge how the economy and central bank policy will evolve in 2023.
This week we provide a further update on supply chain disruptions and highlight a few areas where businesses might reasonably expect some lower prices from suppliers in coming months.
