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Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... prices has also been driven by the US dollar's depreciation. The US dollar index (versus major currencies) has now fallen by 11.4% from the 17-year high it recorded in March last year - which, itself, suggests greater investor confidence (i.e., lesser ...

Women participation rate booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... with around 71,000 jobs created. Of those, 55,400 or 78% were filled by women. Female rates of underemployment have also fallen to the lowest level in over seven years. Hume praised her government for delivering to the economic needs of women. "Increasing ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... index to an all-time peak of 4,129.5 points. What's more telling is that the CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - has fallen to a reading of 16.69 points - the lowest since February 2020 before China's coronavirus epidemic turned into a global pandemic. ...

Chief economist update: Strike while iron ore cools

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
The iron ore price has fallen by more than 4% over the past two weeks which, according to reports is due to concerns over further reduction cuts in Tangshan - China's top steel-producing city - under its anti-pollution plan. But akin to previous ...

Chief economist update: BOE not letting its guard down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... provide significant additional support to the outlook," it said. "The rates of COVID infections and hospitalisations have fallen markedly across the United Kingdom and the vaccination programme is proceeding at a rapid pace." Worldometers.info data confirms ...

Chief economist update: Australia's not jobless recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... labour statistics at the ABS, pointed out that: "Nationally, employment was only 59,000 people lower than March 2020, having fallen by 872,000 people early in the pandemic." Wait, there's more! The details of the report indicate better underpinning ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... would take some time," said the US Federal Reserve in it's most recent minutes. While the US unemployment rate has fallen from the record high 14.8% recorded in April 2020 to 6.3% by January this year, it's still way above the 50-year low 3.5% ...

Chief economist update: Red metal turning red hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... copper prices has also been driven by the US dollar's depreciation. The US dollar index (versus major currencies) has now fallen by 11.4% from the 17-year high it recorded in March last year - which, in itself, suggests greater investor confidence (i.e. ...

APRA releases final ERS figures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... industry from 20 April 2020 to 31 December 2020. The ERS scheme surpassed Treasury's initial estimates of $29 billion but has fallen short of its revised estimates of $42 billion being removed. Of the 3.5 million Australians who applied to the scheme ...

Chief economist update: Inflation lifted by smokers with young children and homebuilders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... consecutive quarters of contraction -- -0.3% in the March quarter and -7.0% in the June quarter. The unemployment rate has fallen to 6.6% in December after peaking at 7.5% in July last year. Australia's success in containing the second wave and the ...