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Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... rate of around 3% over the next couple of years, which is a bit higher than estimates of potential growth. The unemployment rate is accordingly expected to edge lower. Underlying inflation is higher than late last year; it is expected to reach around ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... also support a pick-up in household income growth, and therefore consumption growth, in the period ahead." The unemployment rate remained steady at 5.6% in June driven by an increase in the participation rate to 65% in June from 64.9% in the previous ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... declines in prices of wireless telephone services and prescription drugs..." Inflation isn't lifting despite the US unemployment rate (4.4% in June) falling below estimates of NAIRU (4.9% OECD; 4.5% Oxford Economics) over the past months. It could be ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... 1933 and its exports plunged 61%. Ouch! We all know what happened thereafter - the depression deepened. The US unemployment rate jumped from 7.8% in 1930 to 25.1% three years later.

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 ...

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