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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 ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... coming soon. Well, maybe not. Not if you consider that the twin of the RBA's twin mandate is not so supportive. The unemployment rate was at 5.9% in March, its highest level since January 2016, and employment growth remained a paltry 1.2% in the year ...