Posts tagged 'Wages'

Japan’s employers, taking up the Abenomics cause

Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.

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| Mar 13 10:24 | Comment |

Well, some of them at least. One of the big determinants of whether ‘Abenomics’ manages to pull Japan from its deflationary spiral is through wage growth. Inflation can’t really kick off or arguably even begin without rising wages. One can argue about how important wage growth is, or where it fits in causality-wise — and we’ll come to that later. But it is — or will be — an important signal as to whether this three-pronged approach of the new-ish Japanese government is working.

And actually, it might be catching on. Read more

Eurozone wage adjustment, charted

Paul Murphy is the founding editor of FT Alphaville.

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| Oct 23 2012 15:05 | Comment |

Or peripheral pain in terms of growth/shrinkage in compensation per employee. It offers a striking illustration of why both Greeks and Germans have reason to feel peeved… Read more

Time to resurrect the ‘missing variable’?

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Aug 31 2012 15:45 | Comment |

Anyone who has watched the 2011 Adam Curtis documentary series “All watched over by machines of loving grace” will remember the bit about Alan Greenspan becoming confused about America’s exceptional growth in the 1990s.

At the time, the data didn’t seem to fit the prevailing reality. The incredible and seemingly unstoppable growth Greenspan was seeing on the ground was at odds with his economic models, which instead were signalling an imminent rebalancing on the back of wage pressures and implied inflation. Read more

The return of the US manufacturer

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company.

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| Apr 04 2012 14:42 | Comment |

The US manufacturing PMI released by the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) on Monday beat expectations, coming in at 53.4. But that’s not what we really want to talk about here. Instead, we want to ask the question that the team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch asked themselves in an impressive 73-chart, 43-page report last week. Namely: is US manufacturing in the early stages of a renaissance?

There is a popular image of the sector as being in perpetual decline due to offshoring. However, at least some of the alleged decline had more to do with other sectors growing and thus decreasing manufacturing’s share of GDP as a percentage. Read more

The (possible) future of US manufacturing

Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has written freelance pieces on a variety of other topics from behavioural psychology to Muay Thai, the latter also being a personal interest that involves frequently getting kicked in the shins (and torso, and head).

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| May 06 2011 18:06 | Comment |

Even as it was becoming clear that first-quarter growth had decelerated, there were plenty of signs that the manufacturing sector remained an exception.

Factory production in the first three months of the year grew by 9.1 per cent (annualised), freight and rail volumes grew, jobs growth in the sector has been steady, the monthly ISM surveys have been positive, and earnings by companies like Caterpillar and the Detroit carmakers have beaten consensus handily. Read more

Indonesia catches eye of S Korean firms

Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has written freelance pieces on a variety of other topics from behavioural psychology to Muay Thai, the latter also being a personal interest that involves frequently getting kicked in the shins (and torso, and head).

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| Aug 04 2010 21:05 | Comment |

Indonesia is reaping the benefits as South Korean companies broaden their focus beyond their traditional production bases, spurred by growing wage demands in China and their search for new growth opportunities, reports the FT. In one of the largest indications of interest to date, Posco, South Korea’s biggest steelmaker, on Wednesday signed a $6bn deal to build a plant in Indonesia with PT Krakatau Steel. Read more