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Brexit beginning to bite?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... the latest improvement in UK consumer confidence and the economic composite indicator as well as the country's low unemployment rate and rising wage growth.

Jobs and jobless rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... news and bad news in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the country's labour market. The unemployment rate increased to 5.8% in December, the highest rate since June this year and was more than expectations for an unchanged reading ...

Housing market faces heavy downside risk

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... investing in property are elevated." Those favourable conditions include very low interest rates, high debt levels, low unemployment and strong economic growth. The risks, then, are interest rates rising in the medium-term; the potential for unemployment ...

Brexit where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... labour market data provided more signs of PM Theresa May having the upper hand in Brexit negotiations. The country's unemployment rate remained at a low 4.8% in the three months to November with the employment rate holding at a record high 74.5%. This ...

Super reforms incubating unemployment risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
Recent reforms to superannuation and aged pension eligibility may result in higher levels of unemployment. Findings released by Roy Morgan show the average age of Australians intending to retire has increased from 58 in 2014 to 61 years of age, with ...

Slack Eurozone labour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The Eurozone's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.8% in November from October. This is in line with market expectations, the lowest in seven years (September 2009) and an improvement from the 10.5% rate recorded in the same month a year earlier. ...

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... Market Conditions Index (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" ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... fundamentals. Australian consumer confidence dropped from a reading of around 120 in early 2010 to 89.6 in late 2011 as the unemployment rate rose from a low of 4.9% (2010) to a high of 5.3% a year later (wages growth started its trend decline in early ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... news and bad news in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the country's labour market. The unemployment rate increased to 5.7% in November, the highest rate since August this year and was more than expectations for an unchanged ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments." Labor market conditions. Check. The unemployment rate is down to 4.6%. This is now near the bottom of the Fed's 4.5% - 5.0% longer-run range as set out in its September ...