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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 ...

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 ...

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