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Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments" - don't. Despite an unemployment rate hovering at nearly half a century low of 3.7%, inflation, instead of heading higher has moved in the opposite direction - ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... 2018, following a downwardly revised 237,000 in October, and well below market expectations of 200,000; the unemployment rate steadied at a 49-year low of 3.7% (as expected), and average hourly earnings picked up by 0.2% in the month of November from ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... from the domestic economy haven't changed much from the last meeting. The labour market is improving - the unemployment rate is at 5% - but inflation has softened (headline down to 1.9% in the September quarter (from 2.1) - the sharp decline in oil ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... exports of resources." (November 6 monetary policy statement). The RBA is also more optimistic with regards to the unemployment rate: 5.0% this year and 4.75% in 2019 and 2020 versus the OECD's 5.4%, 5.3% and 5.1%, respectively. So too with underlying ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... growth fundamentals - GDP expanded by 3.4% in the year to the second quarter (the fastest in six years) and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3% in September (also the lowest in six years) - and negative inflation indications - all CPI measures fell ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... absorb new entrants to the labour force. Needless to say, they have all been absorbed... and then some. The unemployment rate has remained at a 49-year low of 3.7% despite the participation rate rising to 62.9% in October from 62.7% in November. The ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... economy. "The labour market remains tight, with the employment rate and vacancies around record highs, and the unemployment rate at its lowest since the mid-1970s. Regular pay growth has been stronger than expected, rising to over 3%. Although modest ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... discount exogenous variables - domestic and foreign - on these, the latest stats speak for themselves. While the unemployment rate has fallen to a six-year low of 5% in September (from 5.3% in August) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... from 99 in September to a reading of 98.6 in October. This, along with the strength of the labour market - the unemployment rate stood at a 49-year low of 3.7% in September - suggests continued strength coming from the US consumer in the coming months. ...

Chief economist update: Still the lucky country?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... Force report showed that the number of unemployed dropped by 37,200 heads in September (from August) taking the unemployment rate to 5.0% - less than market expectations for an unchanged reading of 5.3% and the lowest rate since April 2012. In addition ...