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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 ...

Chief economist update: As safe as Australian houses?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... Although that's still within the realms of the possible given the continued strength in the economy and falling unemployment, the housing sector's large multiplier effect on the economy threatens to reverse these improving fundamentals. This ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... positive growth fundamentals - GDP expanded by 3.4% in the year to the second quarter (the fastest in six years) and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3% in September (also the lowest in six years) - and negative inflation indications - all CPI measures ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... monthly to absorb new entrants to the labour force. Needless to say, they have all been absorbed... and then some. The unemployment rate has remained at a 49-year low of 3.7% despite the participation rate rising to 62.9% in October from 62.7% in November. ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... the economy. "The labour market remains tight, with the employment rate and vacancies around record highs, and the unemployment rate at its lowest since the mid-1970s. Regular pay growth has been stronger than expected, rising to over 3%. Although modest ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... discount exogenous variables - domestic and foreign - on these, the latest stats speak for themselves. While the unemployment rate has fallen to a six-year low of 5% in September (from 5.3% in August) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... slip from 99 in September to a reading of 98.6 in October. This, along with the strength of the labour market - the unemployment rate stood at a 49-year low of 3.7% in September - suggests continued strength coming from the US consumer in the coming ...

Chief economist update: Still the lucky country?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... Labour Force report showed that the number of unemployed dropped by 37,200 heads in September (from August) taking the unemployment rate to 5.0% - less than market expectations for an unchanged reading of 5.3% and the lowest rate since April 2012. In ...

Chief economist update: Blame and trim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... and also less than expectations for a pick-up to 2.3%. Despite the strength of the US economy - underscored by an unemployment rate (3.7%) that's down to a 49-year low - inflation hasn't significantly accelerated (and given the latest CPI report ...

Chief economist update: It wasn't me, it's the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... and also less than expectations for a pick-up to 2.3%. Despite the strength of the US economy - underscored by an unemployment rate (3.7%) that's down to a 49-year low - inflation hasn't significantly accelerated (and given the latest CPI report ...