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| | | ... up," Mr McCarthy said. He said the better-than-expected headline US jobs figures looked good, but data also showed that wages did not increase, which showed there was still plenty of slack in the US employment market. The US Labor Department said on ... |
| | | | ... core inflation rate (excluding fresh food) spiked by 2.7% from a year earlier. And as it was in 1997, the decline in real wages is gathering pace. Real wages have turned negative one month after headline inflation turned positive back in June last year. ... |
| | | | ... will take time" - even citing "real people behind the statistics". "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers, stagnant wages, lower labor-force participation and longer periods of joblessness show that "there remains considerable slack in the economy ... |
| | | | ... of private non-financial institutions contributed 0.9 percentage points to nominal GDP and "compensation of employees" (wages) added 0.5 percentage points. In simple terms company profits are rising - good for business investment in buildings, equipment ... |
| | | | ... the non-manufacturing PMI jumped to 55.0 from 53.4. Rebalancing? Finally, news out of Japan is also cause for optimism - wages of "sarariman" are starting to rise. Basic pay (excluding bonuses and overtime) rose 0.1% in the year to January. Perhaps not ... |
| | | | ... rival Qantas. Qantas shares were down one cent at $1.145 amid fallout from Thursday's news it would axe 5,000 jobs, freeze wages, retire old planes, and slash capital spending and some routes to cut costs. Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank had ... |
| | | | ... could be because the ABS' Wage Price Index (WPI) report only confirmed what you, I and Irene already knew all along, that wages growth had been slowing - up 2.6% in the December quarter (the slowest gain since 1997) - or have gone backwards when you ... |
| | | | ... resulting in many females having inadequate superannuation balances for retirement. "Female workers also have lower average wages and a higher incidence of parttime work, which reduces their ability to make contributions to save for retirement." |
| | | | ... for it to go back home to its motherland. If not, there are a host of other Asian countries with lower currency values and wages and operating costs to pick from." Blame it on the Prime Minister Abbott, blame it on unions, blame ourselves for not buying ... |
| | | | ... are structural impediments: inflation has risen, interest rates are starting to rise, profit is being squeezed by raising wages and some have taken too much debt." He said that this phenomenon "is very positive for the United States." "The upside of ... |
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