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Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest report on job vacancies provide a good forward view of the domestic labour market. According to the ABS, "job vacancies were 27 per cent higher than 12 months earlier in February 2020, just before ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... to be materially higher than it is currently. This will require significant gains in employment and a return to a tight labour market. The Board does not expect these conditions to be met until 2024 at the earliest." This is RBA governor Philip Lowe's ...

Chief economist update: Positive feedback loop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... conditions-also improved, from 90.9 last month to 109.6 in March" (Conference Board). Consumers' assessment of current and future labour market conditions also improved that, itself, was confirmed a few days later by the greater than expected increase ...

Super runs out before death: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... the end of their lives, pointing to the Australian Tax Office, APRA and unpublished data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA). Some 80% of those aged 60 and over who died between 2014 to 2018 had no super at all four years ...

Chief economist update: Too much of a good thing could be a bad thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... hardly surprising with cases of coronavirus infections dropping, vaccine distribution running on full steam, a strengthening labour market, generous government handouts and pledges of continued low borrowing costs. The Conference Board's consumer ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle keeps on turning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... chances are Australia's GDP growth could be revised even higher. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 'Labour Force' report shows total employment is 1800 scalps short of the tally recorded last year before the pandemic and the ...

Chief economist update: What a difference an Australian year makes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... Australian economy than there were before the pandemic." True that. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 'Labour Force' report shows total employment increased by 88.7K heads to 13,006,900 workers in February 2021.While this is 1800 ...

Chief economist update: ECB gives PEPP talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... inflation. At the same time, underlying price pressures remain subdued in the context of weak demand and significant slack in labour and product markets". The risk to near-term growth and the ECB's conviction that inflation is just a passing fancy ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... personal services and transport conditions continue to lag". Confident businesses beget confident consumers (through the labour market), making the jump in consumer confidence hardly a surprise. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence ...

Industry fund awards ESG mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... is ESG," Hutchison said. State Street's ESG analytics platform includes ESG metrics such as water and waste management, labour practices, employee diversity and inclusion, business model resilience, business ethics. Head of State Street Institutional ...