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Inflation data not encouraging: Powell

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023
... those who change jobs. "Surveys of workers and employers show a return to pre-pandemic levels of tightness, and indicators of wage growth show a gradual decline toward levels that would be consistent with 2% inflation over time," he said. Turning attention ...

Wage increases to offset more rate hikes: Experts

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... won't have alarm bells going off at present but will still have concerns. "When you put that together with other indicators of strengthening wages growth, and the CPI coming in higher than expected on Wednesday, we have decided to pencil in one more ...

BNPL to be regulated under Credit Act

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... without essentials, to service BNPL debt. He added last year ASIC found that 19% of BNPL consumers showed two or more indicators of financial stress, such as cutting back on essential items or missing payments on other bills. "We have heard that some ...

Unemployment rate rises to 3.7%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2023
... a tangible amount to a nine-month high," Bloxham said. "Combine these indications with other leading and timely indicators of the jobs market, such as job advertisement and job vacancies, which have also fallen recently, and it seems that the labour ...

UK regulator warns trading apps over gamification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2022
... that displayed more at-risk behaviours. The FCA also found that being 'at-risk' correlated with other commonly used indicators of vulnerability like low financial resilience and low financial literacy. It was also more likely among young people. "We ...

RBA lifts rates, lifts markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... inflation is high." "It's probable that the RBA will be raising rates over the next few months even though many indicators of real economic activity will start to weaken, both globally and domestically." Similarly Australian Retirement Trust chief economist ...

Federal Reserve delivers 0.75bp rate rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
... high." Aside from continuing the process of significantly reducing the size of its balance sheet, Powell noted that indicators of spending have softened, growth in consumer spending has slowed and activity in the housing sector has weakened. However ...

Darren Black appointed SuperFriend chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
... performance," Black said. "In facilitating Australia's largest annual survey for workplace mental health, SuperFriend's Indicators of a Thriving Workplace - the SuperFriend team is uniquely placed to positively impact workplace mental health across all ...

YFYS test results not a fair representation: Frontier

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... Frontier said its analysis shows that the level of returns delivered, or even the size of funds, are not necessarily indicators of a successful fund, based on APRA's assessment. Further, the binary nature of a pass or fail means there are several funds ...

Top franked stock picks: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2021
... trustee services to the securitisation market and outsourced responsible entity services to funds. All positive indicators of future income-generating abilities, according to Morningstar. While perhaps best known for its superannuation administration ...
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