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Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... hold the stance of policy unchanged" at neutral. It appears the RBA's bias has tilted towards the relatively low unemployment rate than below-target inflation as its forward guidance suggests, "the board will be paying close attention to developments ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... world, the most difficult and the most intellectual." More so for the Fed that's caught between two-lows: low unemployment rate (3.8% in March which is a point above a 49-year low) and low inflation - headline and core PCE price index below target ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... these. As "BusinessWorld" - a Philippine daily - prints: "The debt watcher noted the decline in the country's unemployment rate as well as economic and fiscal policies that have resulted in "manageable" fiscal deficits and improved spending and revenues ...

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... that saw GDP grow by a stronger than expected annualised rate of 3.2% in the March 2019 quarter, not to mention the unemployment rate that remains at near-49 year lows. There was also the headline PCE price index - the Fed's preferred measure of ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... rate cut) were: headline at 1%; trimmed mean at 1.7% and weighted median at 1.3%. The one caveat though was that the unemployment rate was around 5.7%, it's now at 5%, although wages growth have only picked up from 2.1% (then) to 2.3% (Dec 2018 quarter ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... March 2019 Summary of Economic Projections, Committee participants' estimates of the longer-run normal rate of unemployment ranged from 4-4.6% and had a median value of 4.3%." The latest US non-farm payrolls report put the unemployment rate at 3.8% ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... However, the Treasury's optimistic outlook on wages does not compute with its labour market forecasts whereby the unemployment rate flattens at 5.0% over the next three years and employment growth weakens from an annual growth of 2.0% this year to ...

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... suicide prevention support program, headspace. "Six years ago when we came to government the economy was weakening, unemployment was rising and the Budget was deteriorating," Frydenberg said. "Since then, we have made the right choices, the difficult ...

Australia back in the black

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... grow by 23/4 per cent in 2019-20 and 2020-21, it said. The Government expects employment growth to stay solid. "The unemployment rate has declined to 4.9%. Youth labour market outcomes have also improved recently," Budget documents read. "As spare capacity ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... growth remains muted -- unchanged at 2.3% in the year to the December quarter -- and this, despite the country's unemployment rate dropping to an eight-year low of 4.9% in February. Other household indicators show a similar trend. Household disposable ...