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Chief economist update: New RBNZ Governor maintains old policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... import price inflation, and subdued wage pressures." Certainly, New Zealand's labour market is "robust". The unemployment rate continued to fell for the fifth straight quarter to 4.4% in the March 2018 quarter - the lowest level since December 2008 ...

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... This is the message from the just-released US CPI report for April. Despite the continued improvement in the US unemployment rate - down to 3.9% in April - and the continuing ascent in crude oil prices, headline CPI inflation only managed a small increase ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... the "expected" improvement in the domestic labour market based on what's currently happening in the US (3.9% unemployment rate and still tame wages growth). The Budget predicts the wage price index - up 2.1% in the December quarter - to grow by 2.25% ...

Chief economist update: Australian workers, don't expect a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... growth stat misses market expectations. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update shows that while the unemployment rate remained at 5.5% in March - in line with expectations and unchanged from the January and February - total monthly employment ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... previous quarter, more recent data indicate that the economy remains resilient to Brexit uncertainty. The country's unemployment rate stood at a 42-month low of 4.3% in January; March consumer confidence improved to its best level since May 2017; and ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... full-time employment - up 64,900 in February - that offset the 47,400 drop in part-time jobs. And although the unemployment rate ticked up to 5.6% in February from 5.5% in the previous month, this was a result of the increase in the participation rate ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... 1933 and its exports plunged by 61%. We all know what happened thereafter - the depression deepened. The US unemployment rate jumped from 7.8% in 1930 to 25.1% three years later. No amount of Trump's pandering to the US populace will get him a second ...

Chief economist update: The trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... full-time employment - up 64,900 in February - that offset the 47,400 drop in part-time jobs. And although the unemployment rate ticked up to 5.6% in February from 5.5% in the previous month, this was a result of the increase in the participation rate ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... predicted in December 2017) and 2.4% next year (from 2.1%) and unchanged at 2.0% in 2020. Projections for the unemployment rate was lowered to 3.8% this year (from 3.9% in the December forecast) and 3.6% for 2019 and 2020 (from 3.9% and 4.0%, respectively). ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... it's also at this month's meeting that the Fed releases its FOMC projections for GDP growth, inflation and the unemployment rate and of course... the dot plots. The "dot plots" plot individual Fed district president's forecasts of the timing of the next ...