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Economic round-up: Chinese whispers and inflation rumbles

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... warns that Australia may have to raise interest rates to reduce inflation risks from growing demand and a tight labour market. "The upturn of non-farm output means that monetary policy may have to be tightened again to ward off inflationary pressures. ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
With a tight labour market and skills shortages pumping up wages, commercial pilots look to be next to join the mile-high club in wages growth, adding to recent burgeoning national wages growth. Australia's wages are said to have grown at a record pace ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... levels can be kept "for years" at their current 30-year lows. That's good news for Australians in our "very resilient labour market" whose salaries can cover their rents.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... In China new loans have risen by 37.3 per cent in the first couple of months compared to last year. The Chinese labour market felt the downstream effect of the economic activity with minimum wages rising by up to 17 per cent in Shenzhen about 9 per cent ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... 94.035 from 94.100. Bonds may come under more pressure today with jobs data likely to point to a continuing tight labour market. The Reserve Bank of Australia may need to raise interest rates further later in the year if wage pressures fuel inflation ...

Daily economic round-up

... Governor Glenn Stevens noted some concern over the inflationary pressures that rising wages have had in a tight labour market. Exports from China have grown by 52 per cent over the last year which is there fastest for a dozen years and significantly ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
The good work done by the Productivity Commission with another seminal report addressing the issue of Australia's capacity to improve and match the performance of the likes of the US has been released. The paper notes that while some European countries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
... construction sector showed a significant increase from third quarter estimates made last year. While the Australian labour market remains allegedly tight, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that there are still about 500,000 people ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... about 34,000 unemployed people in WA of a workforce which is in excess of 1.1 million The continued strength of the labour market will tend to fuel consumer spending and as such it is likely to cause retail sales to maintain the momentum that is has ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... causing the unemployment rate to increase by 0.1 per cent has given economists a sense that such softening of the labour market will help perceptions that the economy has peaked. Average hourly earnings which have continued their momentum for some time ...