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Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... May showed that while the RBA kept its FY 2017/18 inflation forecast unchanged (at 1.5% - 2.5%) along with the unemployment rate (5%-6%), it's lifted its growth forecast from 2.5-3.5% to 2.75-3.75%. Now this may seem like a paltry increase but for a ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... soon. Well, maybe not. Not if you consider that the twin of the RBA's twin mandate is not so supportive. The unemployment rate was at 5.9% in March, its highest level since January 2016, and employment growth remained a paltry 1.2% in the year to March. ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... 1.9% in the year to the fourth quarter of 2016 from 1.4% in the third and 1.1% in the second - and while the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% in March from 6.6% in the previous month, it had been on trend decline since peaking at a three-year high ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... reversed in the following month. What's definitely positive (and notwithstanding the disruption from Stella), the unemployment rate dropped from 4.7% to 4.5% in March - the lowest level since the height of the economic expansion pre-GFC - despite the ...

RBA dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... balance multiple objectives at the moment. We'd like the economy to grow a bit more quickly and we'd like the unemployment rate to come down a bit more quickly than is currently forecast. But if we were to try and achieve that through monetary policy ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... to high 3% growth the region was experiencing before the GFC. The slack in the economy is also explained by unemployment rate. While the rate of joblessness has come down from a high of 12.1% in April 2013 to 9.6% in January this year, it remains above ...

Finance and insurance job market strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... evolve, companies need adept finance staff to manage this change in order to remain competitive, he added. The unemployment rate jumped from 5.7% in January to 5.9% in February.

Kristin's correct call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... showed a re-acceleration in retail spending. This is hardly surprising in light of declining joblessness. The unemployment rate was at 4.7% in January, the lowest level in 12 years. UK retail sales increased by 1.4% in February, more than reversing the ...

Price-pressured

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... "considered it appropriate to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points" -- at the March meeting. Along with the low unemployment rate -4.7% in the three months to January 2017 - the continued upswing in consumer price inflation do, indeed, argue for at ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... the September quarter and stronger than June's 1.7% and March's 1.6% year-on-year growth rate. The country's unemployment rate has dropped to 4.7% in the three months to January from 4.9% roundabout Brexit. The lead from the claimant count unemployment ...