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Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... because the labour market has "strengthened" and household spending is "growing strongly". Recent updates on these two indicators - both stronger than expected - have stoked speculations that the Fed could raise interest rates as early as next month. ...

Competition not super's silver bullet: PC

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... has come up with a series of system-level objectives, corresponding assessment criteria and a suite of performance indicators. It admits "applying the indicators to draw conclusions about the superannuation system overall will be challenging." The Commission ...

UniSuper develops personalised retirement benchmark

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... are tracking, UniSuper's retirement adequacy index uses salary based targets to determine more individually relevant indicators of members' progress in attaining a level of retirement savings needed to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living. ...

ASX ranks third in global sustainability survey

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... Australian economy's increasing momentum before 'Brexit,' employment is a lagging indicator after all. But leading indicators of the jobs market -- such as the ANZ job advertisements series - point continued growth in employment (Figure 1) in the coming ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... conditions index The latest instalment of the Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) - a summary of 19 labour market indicators - confirmed the rebound in US employment in June but unlike the strong non-farm payrolls report, it still indicates that the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... "Regardless of the relative strength to any trend recovery [in apartment approvals] over the last six months, these lead indicators provide less forward guidance than usual because of the uncertainty surrounding the record pipeline of work approved but ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
... activity is holding up reasonably well, with the RBA more focused on the inflation outlook - encouragingly, inflation indicators in the survey picked up a little this month." China retail sales Chinese retail spending slowed a tad to 10.0% in the year ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... Looking at the latest "available information" on its dual mandate, the RBA noted in its statement that, "Labour market indicators have been more mixed of late, but are consistent with continued expansion of employment in the near term" and that "Inflation ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... Labour Market Conditions Index (LMCI) -- Fed's own measure of labour market conditions that summarises 19 labour market indicators into one index number - had been printing below zero since January this year (yup, the month after the December 2015 lift ...