Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
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So look at the ABS calendar and for inflation, GDP, and unemployment.
Don't have a board meeting the day before any of those numbers come out.
Have it a couple of days after.
And it's only tradition that it's held on a Tuesda Monday, Tuesday anyway.
Have it on a Thursday, Friday, whatever.
You can you're you're the RBA.
You can meet whenever you want.
Yeah, look, I think we're we could be slightly disappointed with those numbers.
It's never good to see the unemployment rate going up.
Of course there's monthly volatility.
So in a sense, we shouldn't be worried about too much one month up because next month it could come down.
However, this is the important however, including for the RBA.
At the start of the year, the unemployment rate was 4.1%.
And while there are zigs and zags in the month-on-month data, we're now at four and a half.
And in fact, the last four months have been 4.4% or 4.5.
So we're consolidating rather than the low fours.
We're now in the mid-fours for that unemployment rate.
That's the first part of that labor force number that is so important to the RBA and their assessment on whether the labor market
It's overheating or there's labor shortage and these sorts of things.
The other component, which I think was could even be more important, and we've spoken about this in the past, is the aggregate hours worked in the economy.
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