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Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
With numbers like these, who needs a rate cut? Indications of an improving labour market and strong - very strong - housing approvals are the latest domestic economic stats the men and women of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... positive indications from the jobless claims and consumer spending reports - i.e. consumers are spending because the labour market is strengthening which puts upward pressure on compensation costs. But alas! Wall Streeters still didn't like it. The S&P ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... October 2011. The lead from the claimant count unemployment statistics indicate that further improvement in the labour market is in store. UK claimant count unemployment fell another 20,700 in March - the 33rd consecutive month of decline - to 772,400 ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... colleagues". The main becauses: a small increase in the fed finds rate "might slow" the pace of improvement in the labour market but it "would be highly unlikely to halt this progress"; "...the full effects of monetary policy are felt only after long ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... followed a strong session on Wall Street overnight, as the US central bank's Federal Open Market Committee said the labour market needed to improve before it raised the federal funds rate. The Australian dollar also roser against the US dollar, which ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... 27 points at 5,880. In its post-meeting statement, the US central bank's Federal Open Market Committee said the labour market needed to improve before it raised the federal funds rate. In local economic news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... range for the federal funds rate on a meeting-by-meeting basis... on the basis of incoming data". But is the US labour market really that strong to support the June lift-off camp. Others argue not, pointing to the lingering weakness in wages. The annual ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... a rate hike this year, even as she essentially ruled out the move until June at the earliest. Yellen said the US labour market still showed cyclical weakness and inflation continued to fall, necessitating significant policy accommodation. LONDON - Europe's ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... the latest instalment of the US non-farm payrolls report that showed most measures up. It was all up for the US labour market in January despite the fourth quarter's slower than expected 2.6% real GDP growth and concerns over reduced investment - including ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Contrary to the popular belief, robots are more likely to take over the tasks of medium and high-skilled workers, rather than jobs that do not require a university education, a Department of Industry paper determined. "The challenges presented by increasing ...