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Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... 2016). This also represents the fourth consecutive month of accelerating year-on-year growth in employment - up 2% (the fastest in 14 months). Even better, full-time jobs accounted for all of the total gains in June - up 62,000 - and May - up 53,000. ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... better than expectations for a slight easing to 6.8%. Retail sales growth accelerated to 11.0% in the year to June - the fastest since December 2015 - from 10.7% in April and May. The year-on-year growth in industrial production quickened to 7.6% in ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... that followed an 8.7% increase in the previous month. This is higher than market expectations for an 8.7% gain and is the fastest rate in three months. On the other side of the ledger, China's imports soared by 17.2% in the year to June following the ...

Credit firm expands to Hong Kong

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... O'Neill added: "Hong Kong and Asia are a key pillar of our international strategy, allowing us to tap into the world's fastest growing economic region." "This is the right time to open an office in Hong Kong. Mr Chan's firsthand experience on the ground ...

Advice and real estate firms align

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
Financial advice firm Announcer Group has officially partnered with one of Australia's fastest-growing real estate services businesses. After three years of working together, Announcer and McGrath Estate Agents formalised a strategic referral partnership ...

Financial Standard to expand into Marketing and Communications educational content

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... subject sourced from leading practitioners in Australia and overseas," she said. Financial services is one of Australia's fastest growing industry sectors employing more than 400,000 people across lending, superannuation, insurance, investment, financial ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... update on Japan's consumer prices shows just that. The annual headline inflation rate accelerated to 0.4% in April - the fastest since January this year and double that of the 0.2% rate recorded in the previous month. Similarly, the core inflation rate ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... "The PMI data indicate that Eurozone growth remained impressively strong in May. Business activity is expanding at its fastest rate for six years so far in the second quarter, consistent with 0.6-0.7% GDP growth. The consensus forecast of 0.4% second ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... 0.8% rise in the previous month. This took the annual rate of growth in job advertisements up to 10.1% last month - the fastest rate since March last year - suggesting strengthening in the labour market. Lastly, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) ...

BetaShares expands to Victoria

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... BetaShares Strong US Dollar Fund (YANK), and the Australian Small Companies Select Fund (SMLL). BetaShares is Australia's 11th fastest growing investment manager and fourth largest Exchange Traded Product operator behind BlackRock, Vanguard and State ...