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Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... - and revisions to the prior two months saw an additional 47,000 increase to the jobs numbers. Although the unemployment rate ticked higher to 4.4% from the 16-year low of 4.3% recorded in May - a function of the increase in the participation rate from ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... inflation. UK GDP growth accelerated to 2% in the year to the first quarter from 1.9% in the previous one. The unemployment rate remained at a 42-year low of 4.6% in the three months to April with the corresponding employment rate (74.8%) at an all-time ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... inflation and growth continues to lessen hinted at this. Even the Fed is concerned over low inflation despite the unemployment rate dropping to 4.3% (May). "What we would worry about is if it looked like inflation expectations were slipping because that ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... (4.5%) the OECD (4.9%). But instead of lifting, US core CPI inflation eased to 1.7% in May from 2.3% in January (unemployment rate at 4.8%) and the core PCE price index - the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - decelerated to 1.5% in April from 1.8% at ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... a little below America's GDP growth of 2% (year-on-year) in Q1 2017 from 1.9% in Q4 2016. While the region's unemployment rate (9.3% in April) is more than double than that of the US (4.3% in May), it has steadily come down from the all-time high of ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... March quarter from 0.4% in the preliminary estimate. This is because despite an improving labour market - the unemployment rate was at 2.8% in February, March and April from 3.0% in January and job vacancies have been on a steady uptrend since the start ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... from 211,000) and significantly less than consensus expectations for a 185,000 gain. There was good news in the unemployment rate though, it dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in April but the report shows that this is a function of the participation ate falling ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... 2016 we were speaking of a fragile and uneven recovery. Now it's solid and broad". True that also. The region's unemployment rate have dropped from a high of 12.1% for years ago to 9.5% (March 2017) - the lowest rate in 8 years that, in turn lifted consumer ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest update on the country's labour market that showed the unemployment rate dropped from 5.9% in March to 5.7% in April - better than the 5.75% projected in the Budget 2017-18 papers. But the latest ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... surprise should the strength in the labour market continue - one that would encourage consumer spending. The unemployment rate remained at a 12-month low in the three months to February and the lead from the claimant count unemployment numbers suggests ...