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Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... February, March and April from 3.0% in January and job vacancies have been on a steady uptrend since the start of 2017, real wages are going nowhere. Latest data showed that real wages in Japan showed no growth in the year to April after falling by 0.3% ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... contribution recorded in the December 2016 quarter - perhaps reflecting sluggish income growth, and worse, negative real wages. This development hasn't gone unnoticed by the RBA. In its June policy statement, the RBA noted: "Wage growth remains low and ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... caught between recent indications that growth in the economy has stalled - lacklustre growth in employment; negative real wages growth; weakening consumer confidence and retail spending; renewed falls in commodity prices - and continued buoyancy in the ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... from 8 in the previous period - the fourth straight period of decline. This is hardly surprising given the decline in real wages - down 0.3% in the year to March. Gauging from the details of the April consumer confidence survey (43.2 from 43.9 in March) ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... say. Wages growth might be at a record low but they're still rising. Bad, I say. This is because when you consider "real wages" - the difference between wages growth and the increase in consumer prices - they have gone backwards. Wages growth of 1.9% ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... December quarter - that would mitigate upward pressure on inflation. The recent increase in headline inflation means that real wages growth (using December quarter wages figure) have fallen to a negative 0.3% from an already low, but positive 0.4%. My ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... year-on-year, seasonally adjusted terms) -- helps explain the continued weakness in the growth of pay rates. What is more, real wages - or wage growth less inflation - have also slowed to a two-year low (down to 0.4% in the year to the December 2016 ...

Little pay, little spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... returned to deflation (-0.1% in December) from 0 in November. The worrying part is that despite lower consumer prices, real wages have started to contract - down 0.4% in the year to December from no growth in the previous month. Needless to say, the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... up from the flat reading of the previous month, this is less than market expectations for a 0.2% gain. What is more, real wages has flattened in October following eight consecutive months of positive annual rates of growth. India RBI policy decision ...

Ten-year enterprise tax plan to benefit SMEs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... more competitive company tax rate will "encourage investment, raise productivity, increase GDP and over time raise real wages and living standards." Businesses with a turnover of less than $10 million will also be able to access instant write offs for ...