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Unemployment already over 15%: Roy Morgan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... data released by Roy Morgan today paints a far gloomier picture of Australia's workforce than the Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest data from March. Roy Morgan found 15.3% of the workforce (2.16 million people) were unemployed while an additional ...

Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... have been the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) self-congratulatory exclamation after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that annual headline CPI inflation accelerated to 2.2% in the March quarter - higher than market expectations ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... print (at best). Together, hoarders and panic-buyers sent Australian retail sales to what the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) labelled "unprecedented demand" in March. Preliminary estimates by the ABS show that retail spending soared by 8.2% in ...

Chief economist update: Surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
If this is as bad as it gets, give me coronavirus everyday (well, hope not). The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) reported that employment increased (yes, it's up) by 5900 in March and the unemployment rate ticked up by an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie ...

COVID-19 could end Centrelink stigma

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... JobSeeker payments. The exact number of people left unemployed by the shutdowns is yet to be clear in Australian Bureau of Statistics numbers, but estimates suggest one million people could be jobless. Managing director of Health and Finance Integrated ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... economy who are all-in on getting America back to work, and soon. More to come!" It comes as the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports unemployment remained steady in March at 5.2% (lifting just 0.1% from February's figures). During the month of ...

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
Ho-hum. Financial markets widely expected the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to keep monetary policy settings unchanged at its April meeting especially so soon after announcing a comprehensive accommodation package the month before ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) reported that the economy added 13,500 jobs in January - more than market expectations for an increase of 10,000 - with the creation of 46,200 full-time positions more than offsetting the termination of ...

Chief economist update: Working nine to five, barely getting by

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
"Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'..." - Dolly Parton The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the growth of wages among the country's workers ...

Chief economist update: Turn the beat around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside Aladdin's lamp. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation inched to 1.8% in the year to the December ...