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S&P launches sinner-free index

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... biological weapons, chemical weapons, cluster bombs, landmines, nuclear weapons, conventional military sales and child labor employment in the company's operation or in supply chain. "Sustainable issues represent one of the most important cost and revenue ...

Labour market says go, inflation says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... growing above trend at 3.7% annualised rate in the June quarter. Those expecting a hold on proceedings are also correct. Employment grew by only 173K in August - less than the 223K expected and the smallest jobs add since March this year. While revisions ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... August and 5.2% unemployment rate (from 5.3% in July) could ramp up the odds for a September lift. Then again, the US employment alone is pregnant with other "data" that the Fed is watching and advices us to watch - revisions to previous month's numbers ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... onto their seats than anything else and at this very moment is in the midst of debate over that confidence-enhancing, employment-producing, growth-supporting issue of marriage equality and royal commissioner Dyson Heydon. These, after Bronwyn Bishop's ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... March 2009); while backlog orders improved, they continued to contract - minus 4.55 from minus 7.45 in July; while employment remained positive (plus 1.82 in August), it's fallen sharply from July's plus 3.19 reading; the average workweek dropped to ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... September. There's something for the bulls and the bears and the birds and the bees and the moon up above in the July US employment update to confirm their respective cognitive biases. The latest numbers are unlikely to change your thinking. The US economy ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... the US ISM manufacturing index that fell to 52.7 in July from 53.5 in June, underpinned by significant falls in the employment and new export orders components. Expectations were for a 53.7 print. Nah, Virginia. Financial markets want a September lift-off ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... again, the worsened sentiment on job expectations is consistent and explains that another disappointing stats - the employment cost index (ECI). The ECI -- the broadest measure of employment cost - increased by a mere 0.2% in the second quarter from ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... this target range, the Committee will assess progress--both realized and expected--toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market ...

NZ looks to Trowbridge for life reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... insurance "policy churn". It will make recommendations in response to New Zealand's Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment's upcoming review of the country's Financial Advisers Act. "We expect the MJW independent report will identify possible ...