Oct 28, 2015 04:45 am UTC| Commentary
As UK labour market continues to tighten and the underlying wage growth is trending up, the case for a hike is building and thus the BoE is expected to hike in Q1 16, probably February. Consensus among analysts has now...
US routine and middle-skill jobs likely suffered
Oct 28, 2015 04:42 am UTC| Commentary
Looking distinctly at occupations in the US labor market, as opposed to different industrial sectors or education levels, winds up being very helpful in terms of understanding how jobs are evolving over time, and...
US labor market gives hollow feeling to recovery
Oct 28, 2015 04:39 am UTC| Commentary Economy
Deep dissatisfaction with US labor market has been a hallmark of the current US economic recovery, as well as the previous ones since the 1990s. Despite significant improvement on a wide variety of other labor market...
Polarization helping to keep USD relatively lower
Oct 28, 2015 04:38 am UTC| Commentary
The continued low inflation outlook in United State, despite falling unemployment, suggests the risks are skewed toward a later hike than December. Polarization may be having a mixed effect on the USD despite its...
Strong GBP and Europe's week growth impacts UK's exports
Oct 28, 2015 04:34 am UTC| Commentary Economy
UKs private consumption is stimulated by a combination of low interest rates, very high consumer confidence, increasing house prices, high employment and positive real wage growth for the first time since 2009. Going...
Investors likely to be pressurised by not so great US economic data
Oct 28, 2015 04:31 am UTC| Commentary
US durable goods orders fell for the second month in a row, falling 1.3 percent in September, after a sharp drop of 3 percent in August. The strong dollar is indeed a drag on manufacturers doing business abroad....
Polarization may help explain U.S. soft wages
Oct 28, 2015 04:28 am UTC| Commentary Economy
In U.S., polarization may be breaking the usual links between standard measures of labor market capacity and inflation. A growing puzzle for markets and policymakers has been the apparent decline of the non-accelerating...
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