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US election to add to inflation woes: Experts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... reduce taxes for Americans outside of the richest 1%, while Trump's plan is to extend or favourably modify his Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. And then, of course, is the long-term impact of expanding the national debt, which the projected fiscal plans ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... $368 billion. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is selling AUKUS as a bonanza for employment that will create around 20,000 jobs in the Australian Defence Force and public sector. These include tradies, operators, technicians, engineers, scientists, submariners ...

CBA's conviction on December rate cut has 'dipped'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
... for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to start cutting interest rates. Additionally, Aird said that despite the strong jobs data, the bank is sticking to its expectations for a rate cut in 2024. "The conviction we have in our call for a 25bp December ...

Hopes of RBA cut 'in tatters' after jobs data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024
... Australian labour market's remarkable run of strength has extended into September, continuing to defy expectations of cooling. Jobs growth has exceeded expectations in seven of the last eight months, with the small fall in March (-4.58k) looking ...

Harris vs Trump: Key economic policy differences

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
... back in 2017," he said. However, Cunneen said Trump's proposals would have a more dramatic impact on global trade and the US jobs market. "Trump has proposed imposing 10% tariffs on all imports into the US and specifically 60% on Chinese imports," he ...

Insignia Financial to trial four-day work week

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
... The FSU recently secured similar protections at Cbus, which also included additional consultation time for workers whose jobs are impacted by AI. In a statement to Financial Standard, Insignia Financial chief people officer Mel Walls said: "This is a ...

Fed cut will not move the dial for RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... (RBA) is still not in a position to do the same. Yesterday's official unemployment numbers revealed employment rose by 47,500 jobs in August, significantly higher than the 26,000 the market had anticipated. This left employment growth at 2.7% year on ...

China to raise retirement age from 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... more than 5% of its GDP. For men, the retirement age will be lifted from 60 to 63. Meanwhile, women working in blue-collar jobs will see their retirement age lifted from 50 to 55, and white-collar workers' will be lifted from 55 to 58. Meantime ...

More to do in the fight against inflation: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
The government is rolling out a host of measures to provide cost-of-living relief to Australians. As previously flagged in the Budget, from this month the government will provide more help for renters, pensioners and reduce the cost of medicines for ...

Fed's Powell says 'time has come' to cut rates

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... strategist Seema Shah said the market is now pricing in interest rate cuts this year. "Our interpretation is that, if the August jobs report (to be released on September 6) shows a rise in monthly job gains to above 150k and the unemployment rate retreats ...