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The negatives in the positive jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... trend measure of total employment gains peaked in in April this year (35,000 added) and has consistently eased to 26,000 in July - the slowest since January this year. The trend measure for full-time and part-time employment shows a similar path. Whether ...

Housing affordability depresses confidence: Westpac

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
Aspiring first home buyers remain fearful of their financial futures with new research showing the housing affordability crisis is impacting financial confidence. The survey, commissioned by Westpac, found the majority of first home buyers are not feeling ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'Wage Price Index' report for the June quarter confirmed what we, Australians all, already know...wages growth remains sluggish. Even market consensus got it on point. Growth in total wages stood still at a ...

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
MSCI's definition of emerging markets doesn't necessarily represent the actual growth in emerging economies, according to LGM Investments chief investment officer Thomas Vester. LGM, which is a subsidiary of BMO Global Asset Management, is ramping up ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... market expectations for a 0.3% pick up. Core retail spending (ex-autos) went up by an equally strong 0.5% over the month of July - more than the expected 0.3% increase - on top of a 0.1% gain in the previous month (revised from a 0.2% fall). Year-on-year ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... evolving broadly as anticipated. While inflation remains below the ECB's 2.0% target - headline at 1.2%, core at 1.3% in July - the ECB is now more confident that "the continuing economic expansion and the corresponding gradual absorption of economic ...

Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... high of 2.8% recorded in February. The more important, core inflation measure remained stuck at a two-year low of 1.7% in July - the fourth straight month that it had been below the Fed's 2% target - after peaking at 2.3% in January this year. These ...

AMP prioritises reinsurance, grows advice arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
AMP is ramping up its reinsurance strategy in an effort to release $500 million in capital from its life insurance business and curb volatile earnings in a "challenging industry." AMP chief executive Craig Meller today announced the company signed a ...

Life insurer surpasses code of conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
TAL is going above and beyond the minimum requirements of the life insurance code of conduct and calling others in the industry to follow suit. The life insurer is applying the code's minimum medical definitions for cancer, heart attack and stroke in ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Not happy Jan! This is the collective cry of Australian consumers according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best ...