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Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... October 2017; retail spending was growing at annual rate of 7.7% compared with 1.5% in the year to September 2017; the unemployment rate was at 4.25% compared with 5.5% currently. Consumer confidence (reported later on the same day last month) fell to ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... 200K pick up and more than made up for the hurricane-affected miniscule 38K rise in September. More than this, the unemployment rate remained at 4.1% -- the lowest jobless rate since December 2000 (3.9%) - which by any measure of NAIRU (non-accelerating ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... since February last year and below the 3% - 3.5% annual growth rates recorded before the GFC. This, despite the US unemployment rate dropping to a 17-year low of 4.1% in October and had been at or below the pre-GFC low of 4.4% for seven months runnin ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
... 2016) but since then growth has sequentially accelerated to reach 2.3% in the year to the September 2017 quarter. The unemployment rate is down to a 17-year low of 4.1% in September from 6.7% in February 2014 and the 26-year high of 9.9% recorded in ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... growth of 2.5% in 2017, 2.8% in 2018 and 2.7% in 2019; core inflation at 1.7% in 2017, 2.1% in 2018 and 2.2% in 2019; unemployment rate at 5.6% in 2017, 5.4% in 2018 and 5.3% in 2019. This compares with the RBA's forecasts written in its November 2017 ...

Big bedrooms pose challenge for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... decades past, Salt said the perfect time to start a financial planning practice would have been 1993. Coming out of 12% unemployment in 1992, Australia has continued more than 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth. Salt said this would hopefully ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... 87.6 from October's 13-year high reading of 90.5. And so they should. There's jobs galore - at 4.1% in October, the unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 17 years - and then there's the wealth effect from the rising stock market and house prices ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... from 1.8% in the previous month and much higher than market expectations for a 1.9% increase. The claimant count unemployment increased by a mere 1,100 in October compared with 2,600 in September and expectations for a 2,300 increase. This helps explain ...

'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... by just 3,700 in October compared with the 26,600 added in September and expectations for a 17,500 gain. Sure, the unemployment rate dipped to 5.4% in October from 5.5% in the previous month but this is only thanks to the dip in the participation rate ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... October 2017; retail spending was growing at annual rate of 7.7% compared with 1.4% in the year to September 2017; the unemployment rate was at 4.25 compared with 5.5% currently. NAB's Group Economics team explains the surge in business conditions "stems ...

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Renato Mota takes on new board position

ELIZA BAVIN  |   12:15PM
Renato Mota has joined the board of a $14 billion super fund along with another financial services stalwart.

Aegon AM gears up to take on local bond managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |   12:12PM
Aegon Asset Management is close to launching its first Australian fund, months after the US$446 billion manager unveiled plans to enter the tightly contested local bond market.

MLC slips global shares into neutral, hits gas on alternatives

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   11:49AM
MLC has pulled its global and emerging-market equity positions back to neutral, while continuing to deploy capital into alternatives.

North Americans bargain hunt Down Under: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |   10:48AM
North Americans' merger and acquisition (M&A) appetite for Australian companies will only intensify in 2027 as they chase undervalued assets, according to a new report.

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