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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... contributions from the financial indicators were more than offset by weakening of nonfinancial indicators, such as leading indicators of labor markets, suggesting some risks to growth persist." The decline in the Chicago Fed national activity index - ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments." These words were ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... national activity designed by the Chicago Fed. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index -- a weighted average of 85 indicators of national economic activity - rose to a reading of 0.27 in July from 0.05 in the previous month and better than market expectations ...

UniSuper develops personalised retirement benchmark

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... tracking, UniSuper's retirement adequacy index uses salary based targets to determine more individually relevant indicators of members' progress in attaining a level of retirement savings needed to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living. UniSuper ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... Australian economy's increasing momentum before 'Brexit,' employment is a lagging indicator after all. But leading indicators of the jobs market -- such as the ANZ job advertisements series - point continued growth in employment (Figure 1) in the coming ...

More help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... been otherwise. These factors are likely to continue to support employment growth for a time. In addition, leading indicators of labour demand, such as job advertisements and vacancies, remain on an upward trend and point to further employment growth ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... its objectives, taking into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments." December, December ...

Most life insurance consumers open to genetic testing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... 7,000 people in 75 countries. In that study, 98% of respondents were interested in genetic testing to determine indicators of future diseases. Groyer cautioned, though, that genetic testing doesn't provide guaranteed evidence that a certain condition ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments. The Committee anticipates ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... it's the state of the planet as we knew it last week and last month. The PMI surveys -- considered good leading indicators of economic activity - there'll be more of the same... more or less. And if it's less, you can count on your friendly central banker ...