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Corporates can help solve retirement issue: BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... millennial workforce express new expectations of the companies they work for, buy from and invest in, Fink added. "With unemployment improving across the globe, workers, not just shareholders, can and will have a greater say in defining a company's purpose ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... from 1.7% in the year to the June quarter of 2016 to 1.5% in the September quarter of 2018 (latest available); the unemployment rate is at 4.1% (only a smidgen above the 43-year low of 4%); and, inflation (which shot up due to the British pound's ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... stronger-than-expected 312K jump in non-farm payrolls in December (versus consensus predictions for a 180K gain). While the unemployment rate has ticked up to 3.9% from the 49-year low of 3.7% recorded in November, this is attributed to the increase ...

Hiring continues but wage growth under pressure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... sentiment in the wholesale and retail sector sits at 13%. Latest Australian Bureau of Statistics show the nation's unemployment rate fell from 5.2% to 5.1% as at November 2018. Australian Chamber chief executive James Pearson said: "In the last year ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments" - don't. Despite an unemployment rate hovering at nearly half a century low of 3.7%, inflation, instead of heading higher has moved in the opposite direction ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... November 2018, following a downwardly revised 237,000 in October, and well below market expectations of 200,000; the unemployment rate steadied at a 49-year low of 3.7% (as expected), and average hourly earnings picked up by 0.2% in the month of November ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... indications from the domestic economy haven't changed much from the last meeting. The labour market is improving - the unemployment rate is at 5% - but inflation has softened (headline down to 1.9% in the September quarter (from 2.1) - the sharp ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... My FOMC colleagues and I, as well as many private-sector economists, are forecasting continued solid growth, low unemployment, and inflation near 2%." And about the equity markets... "The asset class that gets the most attention day-to-day is, of course ...

Wealth an unnecessary failure: Thorburn

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... them about banking-type needs, it easily moves into saving for retirement, protecting yourself against disability or unemployment or protecting your family in the event of death if you have a mortgage," Thorburn said. "I don't think that's a natural ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... forecast in last May's Outlook, and by 3.5% in 2020." We already know the reasons for this too: "In many countries, unemployment is at record lows and labour shortages are beginning to emerge. But rising risks could undermine the projected soft landing ...