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Three is the magic number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... and Minneapolis (Kashkari) even voted against a rate hike this month. This because although GDP growth and the unemployment rate turned out better than predicted in the Fed's summary of economic projections in December 2016, inflation hasn't. Latest ...

Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... 2017; retail spending was growing at annual rate of 7.7% compared with 1.5% in the year to September 2017; the unemployment rate was at 4.25% compared with 5.5% currently. Consumer confidence (reported later on the same day last month) fell to reading ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... pick up and more than made up for the hurricane-affected miniscule 38K rise in September. More than this, the unemployment rate remained at 4.1% -- the lowest jobless rate since December 2000 (3.9%) - which by any measure of NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... February last year and below the 3% - 3.5% annual growth rates recorded before the GFC. This, despite the US unemployment rate dropping to a 17-year low of 4.1% in October and had been at or below the pre-GFC low of 4.4% for seven months running.

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
... since then growth has sequentially accelerated to reach 2.3% in the year to the September 2017 quarter. The unemployment rate is down to a 17-year low of 4.1% in September from 6.7% in February 2014 and the 26-year high of 9.9% recorded in October 2009. ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... 2.5% in 2017, 2.8% in 2018 and 2.7% in 2019; core inflation at 1.7% in 2017, 2.1% in 2018 and 2.2% in 2019; unemployment rate at 5.6% in 2017, 5.4% in 2018 and 5.3% in 2019. This compares with the RBA's forecasts written in its November 2017 'Statement ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... from October's 13-year high reading of 90.5. And so they should. There's jobs galore - at 4.1% in October, the unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 17 years - and then there's the wealth effect from the rising stock market and house prices - ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... in September and expectations for a 2,300 increase. This helps explain, as well as presage, the country's low unemployment rate (4.3% in the September quarter).... and back to trade. The country's trade deficit narrowed to £2.75bn in September from ...

'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... just 3,700 in October compared with the 26,600 added in September and expectations for a 17,500 gain. Sure, the unemployment rate dipped to 5.4% in October from 5.5% in the previous month but this is only thanks to the dip in the participation rate to ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... 2017; retail spending was growing at annual rate of 7.7% compared with 1.4% in the year to September 2017; the unemployment rate was at 4.25 compared with 5.5% currently. NAB's Group Economics team explains the surge in business conditions "stems from ...