Australian labour market remains strong – ANZ

By FXStreet FXStreet (Delhi) – Justin Fabo, Senior Economist at ANZ, notes that Australia’s both employment and the unemployment rate beat expectations and while sample rotation has boosted jobs growth in recent months, and may again in January, labour market trends remain positive.

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“Job ads point to employment growth remaining relatively solid over the next 3-6 months. The RBA is on hold for some time.

We continue to view Australia’s labour market in a positive light. While jobs growth has been boosted by the vagaries of the rotation of the labour force survey sample, a range of non-ABS indicators suggest jobs growth ended 2015 on a strong note, just not as strong as the ABS suggest. ANZ job ads point to underlying hiring remaining quite positive in coming months.

The unemployment rate (at 5.76%) has fallen 0.6ppts from its peak and employment rose 300k persons in 2015. These are strong numbers. Encouragingly, youth unemployment has fallen sharply, likely boosted by the strength in retail and hospitality jobs. In addition, the improving economy and labour market have been broadening across the states.

The ABS flagged today that sample rotation could continue to boost measured employment growth in January as the group falling out of the …read more

Source:: FX Street