InvestSMART’s EvanLucas_INV says Australia’s August unemployment numbers set to be released on Thursday will take into account the entire Victorian lockdown scenario.
InvestSMART’s Evan Lucas says Australia’s August unemployment numbers set to be released on Thursday will take into account the entire Victorian lockdown scenario. Mr Lucas said the numbers would be negative and were difficult to gauge correctly due to the JobKeeper program.
“The Victorian effect will finally be laid bare today with how much unemployment in Victoria has now happened because of stage four lockdowns,” he said. He said the United States Federal Reserve had come to the point where “monetary policy is running out of its ability to actually react to the market and to react to the economy and needs to get fiscal policy to support it”. "That is exactly what our RBA is saying at the moment," he said.
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