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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 ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... international trade -- to about 20% of its earlier levels in just a couple of years." This resulted in the US unemployment rate rising from 8.0% (when the Smoot-Hawley tariff was passed in 1930) to 16% in 1931 and 25% in 1932-33. It was only after Roosevelt ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... 435 billion. Like the BOJ, the British central bank upgraded its 2017 growth outlook to 2.0% from 1.4% and the unemployment rate to 4.9% to 5.0% in its latest Inflation Report. Growth and the labour market are not the BOE's current problem, rising inflation ...

Heading the ECB's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... could persist if the current stronger growth trend continues, supported by an improving labour market - the unemployment rate fell to 9.6% in December (the lowest level since May 2009) from 9.7% in November and October - and the weaker euro. However ...

Brexit beginning to bite?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... latest improvement in UK consumer confidence and the economic composite indicator as well as the country's low unemployment rate and rising wage growth.