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Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... have to wait, or the very worst, it would be gradual and gentle. Recall that central banks are not only watching unemployment and inflation but also, to quote the Fed, "readings on financial and international developments". Besides inflation remains ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... inflation and growth continues to lessen hinted at this. Even the Fed is concerned over low inflation despite the unemployment rate dropping to 4.3% (May). "What we would worry about is if it looked like inflation expectations were slipping because that ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... inflation lifting? At 4.3% in May, America's jobless rate has broken below the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) as measured by both Oxford Economics (4.5%) the OECD (4.9%). But instead of lifting, US core CPI inflation eased to ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... just a little below America's GDP growth of 2% (year-on-year) in Q1 2017 from 1.9% in Q4 2016. While the region's unemployment rate (9.3% in April) is more than double than that of the US (4.3% in May), it has steadily come down from the all-time high ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... the March quarter from 0.4% in the preliminary estimate. This is because despite an improving labour market - the unemployment rate was at 2.8% in February, March and April from 3.0% in January and job vacancies have been on a steady uptrend since the ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... revised from 211,000) and significantly less than consensus expectations for a 185,000 gain. There was good news in the unemployment rate though, it dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in April but the report shows that this is a function of the participation ate ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... In 2016 we were speaking of a fragile and uneven recovery. Now it's solid and broad". True that also. The region's unemployment rate have dropped from a high of 12.1% for years ago to 9.5% (March 2017) - the lowest rate in 8 years that, in turn lifted ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest update on the country's labour market that showed the unemployment rate dropped from 5.9% in March to 5.7% in April - better than the 5.75% projected in the Budget 2017-18 papers. But the ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... upside surprise should the strength in the labour market continue - one that would encourage consumer spending. The unemployment rate remained at a 12-month low in the three months to February and the lead from the claimant count unemployment numbers ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... for May showed that while the RBA kept its FY 2017/18 inflation forecast unchanged (at 1.5% - 2.5%) along with the unemployment rate (5%-6%), it's lifted its growth forecast from 2.5-3.5% to 2.75-3.75%. Now this may seem like a paltry increase but for ...