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Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... world, the most difficult and the most intellectual." More so for the Fed that's caught between two-lows: low unemployment rate (3.8% in March which is a point above a 49-year low) and low inflation - headline and core PCE price index below target ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... these. As "BusinessWorld" - a Philippine daily - prints: "The debt watcher noted the decline in the country's unemployment rate as well as economic and fiscal policies that have resulted in "manageable" fiscal deficits and improved spending and revenues ...

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... saw GDP grow by a stronger than expected annualised rate of 3.2% in the March 2019 quarter, not to mention the unemployment rate that remains at near-49 year lows. There was also the headline PCE price index - the Fed's preferred measure of inflation ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... cut) were: headline at 1%; trimmed mean at 1.7% and weighted median at 1.3%. The one caveat though was that the unemployment rate was around 5.7%, it's now at 5%, although wages growth have only picked up from 2.1% (then) to 2.3% (Dec 2018 quarter ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... unemployment ranged from 4-4.6% and had a median value of 4.3%." The latest US non-farm payrolls report put the unemployment rate at 3.8% in March - the 19th straight month that the jobless rate had been below the "median value of 4.3%". The outlook ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... the Treasury's optimistic outlook on wages does not compute with its labour market forecasts whereby the unemployment rate flattens at 5.0% over the next three years and employment growth weakens from an annual growth of 2.0% this year to 1.75% in ...

Australia back in the black

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... 23/4 per cent in 2019-20 and 2020-21, it said. The Government expects employment growth to stay solid. "The unemployment rate has declined to 4.9%. Youth labour market outcomes have also improved recently," Budget documents read. "As spare capacity in ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... remains muted -- unchanged at 2.3% in the year to the December quarter -- and this, despite the country's unemployment rate dropping to an eight-year low of 4.9% in February. Other household indicators show a similar trend. Household disposable income ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
... interest rate cut this year after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) good news on the country's unemployment rate - it dropped to an eight-year low of 4.9% in February from 5% in the previous month and 5.5% in the same month last year. ...

Chief economist update: Fed on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... 1.8% (from 1.9%) this year and to 2% (from 2.1%) in 2020. The Fed revised higher its median forecasts for the unemployment rate to 3.7% (from 3.5%) in 2019 and 3.8% (from 3.6%) next year. This is not to say that the Fed is wrong in deciding what it decided ...

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