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Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... December or sometime next year. For this reason, I reiterate my new-found love for the Fed's Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) because it provides a simple read -- it takes 19 labour market indicators and combines them into one number. Simple! The ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... lift when they saw employment picked up by 260K in May from 187K in the previous month. The Labour Market Conditions Index (LMCI) was 1.6 in May, 1.2 in August and now (September) at zero. When they met on 16-17 September, inflation expectations (differential ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... dipped to a less than expected 34.5 hours from 34.6 hours in August. Then again, the Fed's own Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) could have told us all these without us bothering with the details. The LMCI is comprised of "19 labor market indicators" ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... half -2% inflation target - of its dual mandate. This is supported by recent readings of the Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) - one number that puts together 12 labour market indicators for a better read of well, labour market conditions - showing ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... mother of all econ stats - the US non-farm payrolls report - I repeat, the Fed has done it for us thank you very much. The LMCI is comprised of "19 labor market indicators" "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... 423K surge in November and the unemployment rate dropping from 5.8% to 5.6% in December. The Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) advanced to a reading of 7.1 in December from 6.7 in the previous month. The annual headline inflation rate eased to 0.8% ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... getting lesser press than the payrolls report and virtually not headlined, but I think the Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) - which takes into account 12 labour market indicators -- developed by the Fed itself gives a better summary of... well, US ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... information contained in a large number of indicators". And now a new indicator is born - the Fed's Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) -- a composite indicator of 19 labour market indicators. Read the details here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/notes/feds-notes/2014/assessing-the-change-in-labor-market-conditions-20140522.html ...
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