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Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... could provide greater clarity. Actuals that are better than the 223,000 additional jobs expected for August and 5.2% unemployment rate (from 5.3% in July) could ramp up the odds for a September lift. Then again, the US employment alone is pregnant with ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... had been a little better than expected over the previous few months, although spare capacity still remained". "The unemployment rate was expected to be a little lower than previously forecast". Although the RBA acknowledged the medium term risk of the ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... domestic monetary policy outlook, the fixed income expert is more focused on what is happening in the US. Analysis of unemployment data, as well as wage and price inflation figures leads Reynolds to conclude that a Federal Reserve interest rate rise ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... 2006 when jobs grew slower (save for four months when it grew between 2.0% and 2.2%). It's currently at 2.1%. The unemployment rate - steady at 5.3% -- and the participation rate - steady at 62.6% -- in July offered little guidance. But the other unemployment ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... mid-2012 to early 2014. The lowest annual growth in the ECI was 1.5% recorded back in December 2009 when America's unemployment rate was around 10%. This is easily explained. Still employed workers don't dare ask nor even think about a pay increase. ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... managers said investors should expect lower returns in the years ahead, they saw no reason to run for the exit. "The unemployment rate is better than people expected. The RBA has still got some ammunition and that's why it has been reluctant to cut any ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... Monetary Policy" will provide a clue on the Fed's thinking about particularly, the mismatch between the declining US unemployment rate and still tame inflation - its major mandates - and its monetary response.

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... late in New York on Wednesday, as Germany's jobless scrolls showed a surprise increase of 9,000 people in July. The unemployment rate stayed at 6.4 per cent in July, however, the lowest level since reunification almost a quarter century ago. HONG KONG ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... the dropping or adding of "modifiers". "The labour market continued to improve, with solid job gains and declining unemployment," the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement Wednesday in Washington. It said that "underutilisation of labour ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... commodity prices has played less of a significant role. The economy is robust now, with strong domestic demand and low unemployment. That exports are primarily made up of agricultural products is not the main reason for the growth differential relative ...