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Shock statistics on gender gap on boards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... COVID-19. "I understand that this result is, in part, due to an increase in the number of men in lower-paid full-time employment. After all the economic shocks and uncertainties, we lived through in 2020, it is very welcome news to have more people in ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... Powell stressed that it would take some time before the central bank could make "substantial further progress" towards employment and inflation targets while at the same time that any resurgence in inflation is transitory. The European Central Bank's ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... despite the participation rate remaining at around 17-month highs - itself, a measure of workers' optimism over their employment prospects.... and optimistic about job prospects Australians are. This is backed by the Westpac-Melbourne Institute index ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street can't have its cake and eat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... have its cake and eat it too. It wants both a return to pre-pandemic normal - with all the growth and activity and employment and profitability that came with it - while at the same time wishing, hopin' and prayin' for Biden's US$1.2 trillion ...

Chief economist update: Australia's not jobless recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... the end of the JobKeeper program in March creates some uncertainty for the near term, over the whole forecast period employment growth is expected to remain solid, consistent with the ongoing recovery in activity," "The unemployment rate is expected ...

CFA unveils December exam results

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... and insurance. In mid-2020, the institute surveyed its global members asking about the impact of COVID-19 on their employment. The majority (77%) reported that their roles were unaffected, while nearly half said their firms had either frozen hiring (36%) ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... "Participants observed that the economy was far from achieving the committee's broad-based and inclusive goal of maximum employment and that even with a brisk pace of improvement in the labor market, achieving this goal would take some time," said ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... support Frydenberg's decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) reported that 50,000 workers found employment in December - in line with market expectations. Though the monthly addition in jobs has slowed from 180,000 in October and ...

Chief economist update: Money plus confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... off a virtuous circle of increased household spending, higher corporate profits, lifting business confidence, raising employment, buoying consumer confidence... NAB chief economist, Alan Oster, has the same views that as demand picks up, which should ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... school". "There remains tremendous slack in the labor market, and it would take unprecedented job growth to return to full employment in the next few years." Madam Yellen's is backed by the latest US non-farm payrolls report that showed the economy added ...