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Institutional capital returns to retail real estate after hiatus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... December 2024, down from a peak of 7.8% two years earlier. The continued flow-through of income tax cuts, positive real wage growth of 0.9% per annum, and potential cuts to the official cash rate, the likelihood of which has increased due to global economic ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... attributes this to the country's culture of innovation, growth, and capital investment that led to plentiful jobs, wage growth, businesses making profit, and elevated stock and house prices. "But I would put two real 'buts' in there. One ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... statistic was concerning when Australia urgently needs to boost its productivity. "The decline is surprising given strong wage growth for those who do training, productivity and staff-retention payoffs for employers and the increasing need to update ...

Wages grow 3.5% for the year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said this was the first time annual wage growth had fallen below 4% since the June 2023 quarter. Commonwealth Bank senior economist Stephen Wu said the reading was ...

Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... pay adjust on March 14. "This led to a larger increase in the contribution Commonwealth jobs made to public sector wage growth. Pay rises for these jobs had previously been paid at different times across quarters depending on the timing of individual ...

RBA needs to 'rip the band-aid off' and hike rates: VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
... time for the RBA to rip the band-aid off." Chesler said in addition to the low unemployment rate it was unlikely that wage growth will fall by much when the second quarter wage growth numbers are published in August. "Aggregate wages growth, which haven't ...

ECB drops interest rates to 3.75%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... inflation back down," the Governing Council said. The ECB warned, however, domestic price pressures remain stubborn. Wage growth also remains elevated. The bank predicts inflation will likely stay above target well into next year. It now forecasts headline ...

Super contribution caps to rise on July 1

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... increase was the first in four years. The fact we'll now see an increase after three years reflects the strong wage growth we've seen so far this decade."

Wages growth reaches unsustainable level: Mousina

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023
... important in terms of the signalling impact they have on the rest of the market," she said. Despite the record high, real wage growth remains in negative territory. "Before the pandemic, we struggled to grow wages above 2%. At that time, inflation was ...

Inflation data not encouraging: Powell

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023
... change jobs. "Surveys of workers and employers show a return to pre-pandemic levels of tightness, and indicators of wage growth show a gradual decline toward levels that would be consistent with 2% inflation over time," he said. Turning attention to ...
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