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The negatives in the positive jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... seasonally adjusted numbers of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report were undeniably positive - employment up by a better than expected 27,900 in July from June; the unemployment rate dipped to 5.6% from 5.7%; and the participation ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... RBA) are tracking the wrong leading indicator - the unemployment rate - for wages growth for at the current rates of employment wages should be growing at around 3% per annum (give or take). It is the rate of underemployment - or what the ABS describes ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... Delivery times continued to lengthen, and inventory levels moved lower. Labor market indicators pointed to an increase in employment and hours worked. Input prices rose at a faster clip than last month, while selling prices rose at a somewhat slower ...

ASIC and CBA discussing potential advice problem

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... customers who purchased Credit Card Plus insurance (providing cover for a range of circumstances) may not have met the employment criteria, meaning they may not, if the need arose, have been able to receive certain benefits under the policy. CBA expects ...

CBA chief executive will stand down

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... to ASIC, CBA sold 'CreditCard Plus' insurance for credit card repayments to customers who were unlikely to meet the employment criteria and would be unable to claim the insurance. CBA is also refunding approximately $586,000 in premiums to about 10,000 ...

Macquarie and Canadian pension fund buy SA government asset

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... the services they receive through these functions," Koutsantonis said. Land Services SA is expected to make offers of employment to a significant number of staff who currently perform transactional land services, and a small number may be placed in alternative ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... the previous month; trading conditions dipped from 21 in June but remains at an elevated reading of 20 in July; while employment remained unchanged at a solid seven reading - confirmed by the acceleration in the annual growth rate of the ANZ job ads ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... (RBA) conveyed in the minutes of its 4 July board meeting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported total employment grew by 14,000 in June. This was lower than market expectations for a 15,000 increase and less than half May's 38,000 addition ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... significant positive spillovers to other parts of the economy." "Members noted that the recent pick-up in growth in employment should also support a pick-up in household income growth, and therefore consumption growth, in the period ahead." "Members ...

Government cracks down on salary sacrifice loophole

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... government established the Working Group - comprising senior representatives from the ATO, the Treasury, the Department of Employment, ASIC and APRA - in December 2016 to provide a set of recommendations to improve superannuation guarantee compliance. ...