1. Some ocean shipping freight cost indicators have jumped higher
2. Equity prices again foreshadowed the improvement in Australian housing prices last year and the more recent slowing in growth
3. The increase in detached house building approvals in Australia has been amid a genuine increase in demand as reflected in Google searches for display homes
4. Aussies’ appetite for investment properties has also been strengthening again (maybe something to do with all that income tax being paid + rising housing values again…)
5. The share of the civilian population in a job across countries
6. Australia’s unemployment rate has recently looked a lot like the US jobless rate, but unemployment has been rising a bit faster in several other economies
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