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Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... Ryssdal - host and senior editor of Marketplace. These words also perfectly summed up the results from the non-farm payrolls report released last week - strong employment growth in June with increased participation rate but unchanged average hourly earnings ...

Chief economist update: Weak wages a puzzle, could become a problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... Ryssdal - host and senior editor of Marketplace. These words also perfectly summed up the results from the non-farm payrolls report released last week - strong employment growth in June with increased participation rate but unchanged average hourly earnings ...

Chief economist update: Fed funds at five point O

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... The absence of fresh threat tweets from the US president has allowed me to take a fresh look at the US non-farm payrolls report released over the weekend. It was good. Nah, it was excellent, the stuff of every central bank's dream. US non-farm payrolls ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... success or otherwise of its monetary policy settings and direction - employment and inflation. The US non-farm payrolls report showed employment increased by 313,000 in the month of February following an addition of 239,000 jobs in the previous month ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... to move up this year and to stabilise around the Committee's 2% objective over the medium term," the non-farm payrolls report provided forward indication that consumer prices are headed up "this year". Employment increased by 200,000 heads in January ...

Job openings in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
It lags the US non-farm payrolls report but the US JOLTS (job openings and labor turnover summary) a handy check on the state of the US labour market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics'(BLS) latest update showed little change in August from July: job openings ...

No more slack?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... labour market and therefore, slow wages growth in America. Slack no more? As if on cue, the September non-farm payrolls report showed that average hourly earnings jumped by a bigger than expected 0.5% in the month of September following a 0.2% increase ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... conditions and future conditions indices registering improvements. To be sure, the disappointing August non-farm payrolls report - employment grew by a less-than-expected 156,000 from 189,000 in July; the unemployment rate increased to 4.4% from 4.3% ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... strengthening but inflation remains a no-show and one that was reinforced only last week by the release of the US non-farm payrolls report. The latest report showed the US economy added 222,000 jobs in June - much more than the expected 170,000 gain ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
America's non-farm payrolls report is called "The Mother of All Economic Reports" for nothing - it moves the US financial markets (and by extension, the global ones) up or down depending on the indications it presents when it's released. The US employment ...