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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
Employment up but hours worked fell Employment in Australia grew by 0.07% in June, consistent with the average growth rate over the last six months, according to trend figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The latest Labour ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
Australian employment The number of Australians who found jobs in June may have been less than market expectations - up 7,900 versus consensus forecast for a 10,000 increase - but the underlying details of the report provided positive underpinnings ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... 5-year outlook was steady. While the unemployment expectations index increased to 1.9% in July from June (a negative for employment), it remains 4% lower than April's level and 8.0% down compared with its level in the same month last year, suggesting ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... already high reading of +10 in both April and May to +12 in June. The details of the survey showed strong gains in employment (+4 in June from +1 in May) and forward orders (+4 from +2) and continuing improvement in exports (+2 from +1) and profitability ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... of the Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) - a summary of 19 labour market indicators - confirmed the rebound in US employment in June but unlike the strong non-farm payrolls report, it still indicates that the labour market hasn't recovered its strength ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
A big bounce in US employment gave the green light to investors and speculators to put risk back on onto their portfolios. Fear, it seems, has left the building... or driven out by the strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... driven by a rebound to expansion territory in new orders (52.1 in June from 42.9 in May), activity (53.9 from 47.7) and employment (53.9 from 49.0). This followed AiG's surveys of the manufacturing (up to 51.8 in June from 51.0 in May) and services sector ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
... by 8.8% over the year. Newspaper ads continued to decline, down 5.3% and 29.8, respectively. Job advertisements lead employment growth by around 6-9 months. The ABS will release June employment figures on 14 July. AiG performance of services Another ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... (US$17 billion) stimulus package "in consideration that worries are growing over the possible contraction of growth and employment in the second half due to Brexit and the ongoing corporate restructuring." South Korea is Australia's fourth largest export ...

UniSuper creates member comparison tool

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... "In our view, superannuation's primary purpose is to smooth consumption over a person's life by replacing income from employment with income from retirement savings," O'Sullivan said. "By allowing individual members to compare their situation to other ...