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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 ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... rise to 9.5 per cent. There's also good news even in that stat that the bears use to make the scary spookier. The underemployment rate dropped to 16.1 per cent from 16.7 per cent. And this debate hasn't stopped here. There were counter-arguments and ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... rose to 20 weeks in March from 19.4 weeks in the previous month. Also, we would be reading more about how the underemployment rate inched up to 16.9 per cent from 16.8 per cent. But no! Nien! Nyet! The positive tone on Wall Street even gave Robert Hall ...

ACCI endorses RBA chief's comments on labour market reform

... said that there is still much to be done. "There are still over 600,000 unemployed Australians and the level of underemployment remains over 13%," it said. The ACCI said the Governor's comments reflect its Modern Workplace policy blueprint, which highlight ...
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