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LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... virtually not headlined, but I think the Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) - which takes into account 12 labour market indicators -- developed by the Fed itself gives a better summary of... well, US labour market conditions. It's a month late than ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... Australia (RBA) releases February's index of commodity prices and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its business indicators for the December quarter. Also due out are: The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing (PMI) index ...

WTF moment on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... long-term average of 16.5 - though this reached a high of 44 plus in December 1999 during the tech boom. Other valuation indicators provide the same readings. "Irrational exuberance"? Then again, as John Maynard Keynes once said, "markets can remain ...

Focus on yield is distorting asset prices: PM Capital

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... Australian economy and resilience of the local Australian financial markets over the last 10-15 years." While other indicators such as a slowing in demand for natural resources and subdued consumer sentiment point to a changing backdrop for Australian ...

APRA-ABS super surveys to commence Jan 2016

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... the superannuation industry to GDP, to national, sector and industry measures of income, savings and wealth and to indicators of financial exposure and risk.". The enhanced statistics should also facilitate international comparisons of the Australian ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... policy margins particularly among higher risk policy holders within industrial super fund clients. The mixed growth indicators point to widely disparate forces now being in play across the insurance market and that it is the globally-owned insurers which ...

Financial System Inquiry recommendations wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... their mandates. Provide clearer guidance to regulators in Statements of Expectation and increase the use of performance indicators for regulator performance. Execution of mandate: Provide regulators with more stable funding by adopting a three-year funding ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... Australia releases the index of commodity prices for November while the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business indicators for the September quarter. Also due out is the Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing (PMI) index ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... eloquently... even quoting from Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto" to drive home his point. It's them. "Since we last met, indicators across much of the advanced and emerging world have been moribund." "A spectre is now haunting Europe - the spectre ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... market volatility. These may have affected business confidence at the time of the survey. The NAB survey's forward indicators paint a rosier picture for the domestic economy: Forward orders increased by 6 to a reading of plus 4 in October - "above the ...