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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 ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... point to continued expansion in employment over the period ahead." Even more surprising, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 5.9% in February from 5.7% in the previous month, and the participation rate could not be used as an excuse for ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... numbers were revised higher to 238K from 227K. Though it came in line with market expectations, the decline in the unemployment rate to 4.7% in February from 4.8% in the previous month came amidst the increase in the participation rate from 62.9% to ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... 2.5%-3.5% and 2.75%-3.75% in 2018 (published in its February 2017 monetary policy statement). The RBA predicted the unemployment rate to be between 5% and 6% this year and the next. The OECD's rationales for its projections - which are more or less similar ...

Boring but the trend is our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... in January, more than the expected 10,000 addition and followed the previous month's strong 16,300 gain; the unemployment rate declined to 5.7%, also better than market expectations that it would remain unchanged from December's 5.8% rate. The not so ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... payrolls report for February - consensus expectations centre around a 180K increase over the month and for the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 4.8%. The risk to these forecasts is to the upside - i.e. better than expected results given the improvement ...

Help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... although momentum in the labour market has slowed, it remains strong enough to underpin a gradual decline in the unemployment rate this year." While I don't dispute this, I have a few doubts. I've been tracking the correlation between the year-on-year ...

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Praemium's new leadership will be keeping a close eye on costs, with new chief executive Denis Orrock noting he will make sure the technology upgrade underway translates into stronger earnings and better returns for shareholders.

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