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James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... than many people appreciate... We're really pretty close to normal" - based on Jimmy's prediction that the US unemployment rate would fall below 6% and inflation would lift to near 2.0% by the end of this year. Ergo, "I've left mine at the end of the ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... conference. The current Fed outlook: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down from 2.8%-3.0% predicted in March; the unemployment rate at 6.0% - 6.1% this year, down from 6.1%-6.3%; inflation at 1.5%-1.7%, up from 1.5%-1.6%. However, Fed officials raised ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... than expected jobs data also had little impact on the market, reflecting the subdued investor sentiment. The unemployment rate was steady at 5.8% in May, as the total number of people with jobs fell 4,800 and the participation rate also slipped. The ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... and the asset purchase programme ceiling at A£375 billion. The only change Carney made was to delete the 7.0% unemployment rate threshold (at which previously the BOE said, it would start thinking about raising interest rates) and replaced it with "forward ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... significant slowdown from the near-double digit growth rates in 2010-2011 and from 2005 to 2008. These, despite the unemployment rate at a high 9.9% (2012), its budget deficit predicted to reach 5.2% of GDP this year by The Economist magazine - from ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... overnight release - the job market - has crossed the t's and dotted the i's for immediate action. The region's unemployment rate ticked down in April from March's 11.8% but at 11.7% remains close to all-time highs... and this hides depression-like 20%-plus ...

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... trade-off between its employment and inflation objectives..." - low inflation enables it to continue driving the unemployment rate down. And while the FOMC are already surveying exit options, fear not for you, I and Irene would be notified in advance. ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... appears more broadly based than previously estimated." The labour market has steadily improved. Remember, the 7.0% unemployment rate that's become "a threshold not a trigger"? This has fallen below that - to 6.9% in February and dropped further to 6.8% ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... before accelerating to 3.0% in 2015/16. More conservative is the government's labour market prediction. The unemployment rate is expected to rise from 6.0% this fiscal year to 6.25% in the following two fiscal years. Conservative because latest ABS data ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... labour force report that showed employers added a much larger than expected 18,100 staff over the month and the unemployment rate dropping from 6.1% to 5.8%. The lead from the improving ANZ job ads series - it had risen for the fourth straight month ...