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20pct tax rebate is budget neutral: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... about increasing the mandatory employer superannuation contribution rate to 12%, saying it will operate as a tax on employment. Australian Chamber of Commerce chief executive Kate Carnell said "increasing the superannuation guarantee will impact not ...

Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... detailed: Overall livelihood: 41.1 (up 0.2 from the previous month) Income growth: 41.8 (up 0.7 from the previous month) Employment:46.3 (down 0.4 from the previous month) Willingness to buy durable goods:41.6 (the same as the previous month) To be sure ...

Cbus Royal Commission findings impact industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... was a breach of the Privacy Act. The release was a breach of various contractual duties created by the contracts of employment under which the executives were engaged," the Commission's final report said. "The executives of Cbus conducted themselves ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... although future policy actions will obviously depend on how the economy evolves relative to our objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. Key words: "economy performing well"; "policy remains accommodative"; "normalizing interest rates ...

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... quarters of negative real GDP growth over a quarter of a century; a situation PIMCO described as "a miracle". "Aggregate employment is growing," Bowe continued. "However, the structural shift into lower-paid jobs will continue to weigh on wages and through ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... anticipate continued economic growth at a moderate pace that will be sufficient to generate additional increases in employment and a rise in inflation to our 2 per cent objective. Although the economic outlook, as always, is uncertain, I currently see ...

Belabouring the labour market stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... November 2015 (the incoming rotation group) displayed a stronger tendency towards both participation and particularly employment than the group it replaced (the outgoing rotation group in October), and a resulting higher participation rate and employment ...

PM Capital fund receives Zenith rating

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... The portfolio includes NASDAQ-listed HR Chinese business 51job, ASX-listed gaming business Donaco, NYSE-listed online employment platform Zhaopin, NASDAQ-listed Chinese search engine Baidu and HSBC Holdings.

US Fed cleared for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... make progress on those dimensions." The actual US non-farm payrolls number - released a day later - did 11,000 better. Employment increased by a better than expected 211,000 in November following an upwardly revised 298,000 in October. The jobless rate ...

Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... process. Besides, despite the gloomy domestic headlines, indications from which the RBA is directly in charge of - employment and inflation - are not on red alert levels. Instead, the latest instalment showed that the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9% ...