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| | | ... current funk. However, significant structural headwinds still pose a hurdle that will prove difficult to overcome, keeping wages growth subdued and consumers cautious with their spending." Here, the lead from the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer ... |
| | | | ... February, March and April from 3.0% in January and job vacancies have been on a steady uptrend since the start of 2017, real wages are going nowhere. Latest data showed that real wages in Japan showed no growth in the year to April after falling by 0.3% ... |
| | | | ... to the pressure piling on the government's Budget economic forecasts especially as it's counting on growth to lead to a wages boom that it hopes will drive up personal taxation receipts and help the nation reduce its annual deficit and in time enable ... |
| | | | ... company profits growing much faster than sales? The answer my friends is not blowin' in the wind, it's in the same report. Wages and salaries grew by a paltry 0.3% in the March quarter, not even enough to compensate for the December 2016's 0.5% quarter ... |
| | | | ... Committee will carefully monitor actual and expected inflation developments relative to its symmetric inflation goal." With wages at a standstill, inflation remains quiescent. In fact, both headline and core inflation eased to 2.2% (from 2.4%) and 1.9% ... |
| | | | ... caught between recent indications that growth in the economy has stalled - lacklustre growth in employment; negative real wages growth; weakening consumer confidence and retail spending; renewed falls in commodity prices - and continued buoyancy in the ... |
| | | | ... from 8 in the previous period - the fourth straight period of decline. This is hardly surprising given the decline in real wages - down 0.3% in the year to March. Gauging from the details of the April consumer confidence survey (43.2 from 43.9 in March) ... |
| | | | ... fell to 98 in May from 99 in April while retail sales contracted in the months of February and March. The recent update on wages growth adds to the uncertainty of part-time employment at eating away at confidence and preventing consumers lifting their ... |
| | | | ... protectionism", the outlook for China and commodity prices, the slack in the domestic labour market (and its implication for wages and inflation), household consumption and household debt levels, and property prices. |
| | | | ... September 2008. Manufacturers may be regaining some ability to pass though cost increases, although their input costs and wages are now increasing briskly" - the wages sub-index rose by 4.4 points to 58.4 in April. The AiG performance of manufacturing ... |
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