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Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... - the easiest way in the current difficult environment is, you guessed it, cutting cost (the biggest portion of which is wages). "CHANNEL 9 has confirmed that it is set to slash jobs and institute a pay freeze as part of a massive cost cutting program." ...

Are we there now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... stuck since March this year) and slight improvement in average overtime hours indicate further improvement going forward. Wages too are improving. Average hourly earnings increased by 0.4% in November from the previous month and 2.2% from a year earlier. ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... has a degree of spare capacity and it will probably be some time yet before unemployment declines consistently. Growth in wages has declined noticeably and is expected to remain relatively modest over the period ahead, which should keep inflation consistent ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... headlines of rising unemployment, 6.1% in September from 5.7% a year ago, and those who aren't culled are seeing slowing wages growth. Latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show that the annual growth in hourly rate of pay (excluding ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... spending dropped by 5.9% in the year to July after contracting by 3.0% in June. Households' aren't spending because real wages continue to decline - down 1.7% in the year to July. Easing consumer confidence in August indicates further weakness in store. ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... consumer demand growth (after the effects of the consumption tax hike wanes) is at odds with the persistent decline in real wages in the economy. According to Factset data, Japanese real wages have fallen by 3.2% in the year to June that followed an ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... index gained 0.37 per cent to close at 6,656.68 points. Investors weighed news of a drop in British unemployment amid weak wages growth, which pushed back expectations that BoE interest rates could climb before the end of the year. That in turn pushed ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... uncertainty about the current degree of slack, the Committee will be placing particular importance on the prospective paths for wages and unit labour costs." Happy now?

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... that the amount of slack is being eaten up much more quickly than we thought it would be, but it seems likely looking at wages... that we probably had more of it than we thought a year ago". He's not wrong, you know. The UK's unemployment rate continues ...

RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... that recent data showed an increase in inflation, affected by the decline in the exchange rate last year. "But growth in wages has declined noticeably and is expected to remain relatively modest over the period ahead, which should keep inflation consistent ...