unemployment

The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to keeping easy monetary policy in place until it meets its ambitious goal of achieving full employment. By our...

RBA Governor Lowe delivered a very important speech yesterday on “The recovery, investment and monetary policy” at the AFR's business review conference. Arguably the...

Australia’s economic recovery continues to underpin a significant improvement in the Commonwealth budget. Last week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the number...

Economic indicators are as ubiquitous as financial commentators during a crisis, but what do they really mean, and why do they matter? Given uncertainty seems to...

According to the latest unemployment statistics, over 300,000 Australians aged between 15-24 are now unemployed and over 280,000 dropped out of the labour force in...

Global equities tried hard to remain positive last week even as new CV-19 cases continued to emerge in Beijing and some U.S. states. After the previous Thursday’s...

Negative interest rates were a hot topic this week. President Trump repeated his support for the idea but even prior to this, several Federal Reserve officials said...

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”. George Bernard ShawMeasuring unemployment is a strange...

‘Risk-off’ has been the flavour so far this week. Overnight, US Federal Reserve Chair Powell dismissed all talk of turning to negative rates to address a downturn...

“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater...