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US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... (LMCI) -- derived from 19 labour market indicators covering "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses" - fell to a reading ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... The LMCI is derived from 19 labour market indicators covering "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses". Tomorrow's US ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... The LMCI is derived from 19 labour market indicators covering "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses". As a matter of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... The LMCI is derived from 19 labour market indicators covering "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses". An LMCI reading ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... labour market. The LMCI comprises 19 labour market indicators "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses". Japan consumer ...

Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... not exhaustive set of the available data on the labor market, covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses. Table 1 lists the ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... details. The LMCI is comprised of "19 labor market indicators" "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses", among others. ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... much. The LMCI is comprised of "19 labor market indicators" "covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers and businesses", among others. Latest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... 85,000 jobs. At the same time the US labour market showed some signs of weakness, with wages barely growing and underemployment still elevated. The jobs data "came in at a sweet spot" for Wall Street, said David Levy, portfolio manager at Kenjol Capital ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... 2.3% in the year to September from 2.5% in the previous month. While the "U-6" unemployment rate - a measure of underemployment - dipped from 12.0% in August, it remained at a high 11.8% last month. So perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, it was not so good news ...