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Small not feeling beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... Fed's decision to lift interest rates back in December and its forecasts for more lifts this year, weakening activity indicators released since - not to mention still below target inflation - indicate otherwise. A bigger-than-expected drop in small business ...

More help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... been otherwise. These factors are likely to continue to support employment growth for a time. In addition, leading indicators of labour demand, such as job advertisements and vacancies, remain on an upward trend and point to further employment growth ...

Australia carbon reporting quality on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... remains unclear, although there is no doubt that companies will continue to expand the strategic use of non-financial indicators in their annual reports."

Bell Direct to deliver "smarter robo-advice"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
Online broker Bell Direct has partnered with Lincoln Indicators to give clients access to the Stock Doctor research platform. As a result, Bell Direct clients using Stock Doctor to research equities (and how they fit into investment objectives) can ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... at 200K) - it gave credence to the Fed's minuted statement that, "Members agreed that a range of recent labor market indicators, including ongoing job gains and declining unemployment, showed further improvement and confirmed that underutilization of ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... bill-is a valuable forecasting tool. It is simple to use and significantly outperforms other financial and macroeconomic indicators in predicting recessions two to six quarters ahead." To appreciate this better, I've constructed a chart of the US yield ...

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... housing market, residential investment contributed about 20% of the growth that Australia saw in 2015. Forward looking indicators suggest that investment is slowing down quite substantially and it's not just on the volume side. "So if you take the housing ...

Super changes won't close gender retirement gap: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... improvement to women's retirement savings. Garcia said many European countries had introduced objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for their pension systems that took into account the specific needs of women. "Legislating objectives for superannuation ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... range for the federal funds rate at that meeting." "They indicated that they would be assessing a range of labor market indicators over the period ahead to confirm further improvement in the labor market. Members, however, expressed a range of views ...

Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... love for the Fed's Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) because it provides a simple read -- it takes 19 labour market indicators and combines them into one number. Simple! The Fed describes the LMCI as: "A factor model is a statistical tool intended ...