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Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... night - down to 90.4 in November from 99.1 - is a worry for much of the sharp decline was due to consumer pessimism over jobs. They should be and more so with corporate profits dropping by 1.1% in the third quarter and by 4.7% from a year ago. And then ...

Paris adds to the "why nots" for a December lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... attacks in Paris). Expectations that the Fed will commence lift-off in December lifted following the 271K surge in October jobs that beat even the highest estimate of 250K; the jobless rate dropped to 5.0% -- the lowest since April 2008; average hourly ...

The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... of a market downturn is essential. Given REI Super members' exposure to the fast-growing property market through their own jobs, the fund's investment strategy takes a conservative approach to this asset class. "Over the last two to three years we have ...

Culture is the 'glue' that drives growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... the volunteers, the whingers, the survivors and the prisoners. The 'volunteers' are the role models who will fulfil their jobs and go out of the way to help a company succeed. The so-called 'prisoners' are the opposite and will attempt to sabotage or ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... expectations for a 1.7% gain. Growth flipped from 2.1% to 1.2% in the year to the September quarter. Now think of all the jobs this kind of growth will not create....and inflation? The Fed's favoured measure - the PCE price index - slowed to 1.2% in ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... the data says no to December... unless things dramatically turn around, that is. When the Fed met in September, they saw jobs growth slowing to 136K in August from 223K in July - they didn't lift. Even in June they didn't lift when they saw employment ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... conditions, in particular the job market, and were moderately less optimistic about the short-term outlook. Those anticipating more jobs in the months ahead declined moderately from 14.9 percent to 14.5 percent, while those anticipating fewer jobs increased ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... after only one meeting., Roughly speaking the data has not been that different from what would have been expected, and the jobs report was weaker." As for December, there's still around a 33% likelihood that the Fed would, if the Fed could. But expanding ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... bump higher. Never say, never. While the Fed and the markets appear to be focused on the one-half of their twin mandate, jobs - the latest slowing of which caused the latest betting that a lift-off is off the table this year - it's doing better than ...