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Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... and up on May 7 - the Dow and the S&P 500 index even rallied new record highs -- the same day the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed disappointing labour market stats. The US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, well-below market expectations ...

Chief economist update: Low for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
Latest inflation figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) underscore both the Reserve Bank of Australia's prescience and governor Philip Lowe's expectation that the official cash rate will remain low until at least 2024. ...

ERS spending revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed what people who accessed their super early due to financial hardship caused by COVID-19 spent the money on. The ABS found that 29% of people who accessed their super in the early release of super program ...

Women participation rate booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
Women's participation in the workforce has reached a record high of 61.8%, the latest employment statistics show. Citing new Australian Bureau of Statistics unemployment figures, Senator Jane Hume said Australia has achieved the highest female participation ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... increased by 38 million hours to a record 1,800 million in March. To be sure, and according to Bjorn Jarvis, head of labour statistics at the ABS, "The data was collected during the first half of March, prior to the end of JobKeeper on 28 March. "The ...

Risk advice most sought-after among Kiwis

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... financial advisers recommend are life insurance products, according to the country's financial markets regulator. New statistics released by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) reveals that risk products are the most popular topic among advisers, followed ...

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Some move the goalposts when they can't hit the target, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison did one better and all but abandoned his government's vaccine roll-out target. Taking to Facebook, Morrison announced on April 10 that: "The government ...

Tax concessions failing women: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... women, men get $2.52 and for CGT 61% of the discount flows to men, getting $1.54 for every dollar going to women. The statistics are similar for excess franking credits with 72% of the benefit going to men who are receiving $2.57 for every dollar women ...

Chief economist update: Chinese manufacturing ramps up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... returned with a vengeance after a brief pause during the country's Lunar New Year holidays. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data show that China's manufacturing PMI rebounded to a three-month high of reading 51.9 in March from 50.6 in February. ...

Risk inflows stagnant, satisfaction varies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... EnergySuper from MLC to OnePath and AFLPA from AMP to OnePath all occurring over 2020," Plan for Life said. The latest statistics come as Roy Morgan released its latest customer satisfaction report for risk and life insurance. Allianz topped the list ...