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Why the ECB should still be worried about wagesEconomists think central bankers need to wait for hard data before cutting interest ratesEuropean Central Bank president Christine Lagarde spurred investors to ramp up bets on early rate cuts this week by saying wage growth was showing signs of cooling, causing the euro and bond yields to fall. But economists warn that rate-setters still want hard data to confirm the impact on inflation before they take action.The big fear for all central banks since the start of the inflation surge has been that workers’ demands for higher pay to maintain their living standards would fuel persistent price rises. Wages were slower to rise in the EU than in the US or UK, because so many workers are covered by sectoral pay deals that last several years and take time to renegotiate.But by the third quarter of last year the effect was clear: the ECB’s real-time tracker of negotiated wages showed that annual pay growth hit 4.7 per cent, the fastest pace in the history of the single currency area. That compares with annual wage growth of 4.1 per cent in the US and 6.5 per cent in the UK, according to the latest data.Lagarde said at the ECB’s press conference on Thursday that the pay of 40 per cent of employees covered by its wage tracker was “yet to be determined” because it was covered by collective agreements expiring in December and the first quarter of 2024. This means the ECB will receive crucial information in the next few months on the extent of underlying inflationary pressures. Lagarde’s comments suggested the ECB is cautiously optimistic about a benign scenario where wages grow more slowly, at a pace that allows workers to repair their living standards, while companies take a hit to profits rather than passing the cost to consumers. The central bank’s in-house wage tracker suggests pay growth has stabilised in recent weeks as job vacancies have declined, Lagarde said. “We are seeing a slight decline, so it is directionally good from our point of view.”Wage growth is expected to slow from about 5.3 per cent last year to 4.4 per cent this year, according to an ECB survey of 70 non-financial companies published on Friday, which found “an increasing number” were planning to cut jobs. The bank has said 3 per cent wage growth is consistent with inflation in line with its 2 per cent target.Meanwhile the ECB’s assumption that wage increases would be absorbed in companies’ margins was “exactly what we have seen”, Lagarde said, adding: “There is a phenomenon of catching up for employees. It’s also one of the reasons why we see growth coming up and the recovery beginning in the course of 2024, because of rising wages while inflation comes down.”“I’m not worried about what I see in wages,” an ECB governing council member told the Financial Times after Thursday’s meeting, when the central bank held rates at a record high of 4 per cent. “But we don’t need to rush, we need to be cautious and make a judgment based on data that will be coming out.”Policymakers have expressed differing views on how important quarterly wage growth figures will be when deciding when to cut interest rates.Data on first-quarter eurozone wage growth will be published shortly after the ECB’s meeting in April, suggesting its June vote may be the earliest rates could feasibly be cut. Philip Lane, ECB chief economist, seemed to signal this by saying recently: “By our June meeting, we will have those important data.”However, Lagarde downplayed the need to wait for the first-quarter wage figures to be confident that inflation had been tamed. “We look at a whole range of data, we are not only focused on wages,” she said. “So I would not draw any conclusion from a date of publication.”As well as tracking wage developments in real time, policymakers will be keeping a close watch on company profits, service sector inflation, constantly evolving energy prices and fiscal decisions on the withdrawal of support for household energy bills, Lagarde noted. However, economists said that given how much emphasis the ECB has put on the importance of wages, its rate-setters were likely to want to see the quarterly data before being confident enough to loosen policy.“They are clearly warming up to a rate cut,” said Dirk Schumacher, a former ECB economist now at French bank Natixis. “The market is pricing in a cut in April, but the ECB won’t have the wage data they want by then, so I think the economy really needs to tank for them to cut before June.”There are still signs that unions are pushing for big pay rises, including a demand in Germany for a €500-per-month wage increase for the country’s almost 1mn construction workers. That is equivalent to an eye-catching 21 per cent pay rise for the sector’s lowest-paid majority, although German unions often accept about half what they ask for.There is also a lingering concern that companies are hoarding labour. Unemployment hit a record low of 6.4 per cent across the bloc in November despite the weak economic backdrop. But average working hours have fallen, potentially because companies are reluctant to lay off staff who will be hard to recruit when demand picks up.There are also widespread indications the eurozone still has significant labour shortages and mounting wage pressures. A near-record 31 per cent of services companies complained of worker shortages in a recent EU survey. Companies are also passing on rising labour costs via their sharpest price increases for many months, according to an S&P Global poll.“Negotiated wages have yet to decisively turn, while labour productivity is persistently weak,” said Hugo Le Damanay, economist at Axa Investment Managers. All this means the ECB will have to remain cautious. Despite her more dovish remarks on Thursday, Lagarde showed an awareness of this, saying: “We need to be further along the disinflation process before we can be sufficiently confident that inflation will actually hit the target in a timely manner.”
Cita de: tomasjos en Enero 28, 2024, 11:43:47 amPara que nos hagamos una idea, yo he llegado a escuchar durante la crisis de 2008, a gente bien preparada, decir que porque no se quitaba el 25 por ciento de los ahorros a los ahorradores para dárselo a los hipotecados y pudieran pagar los pisos. Ese es el nivel.No sé si fue Mistermaguf quien lo comento aquí hace no mucho. Es otro concepto que me gustó y lo uso profusamente. Salarios de cinco mil cucas netas al mes para todo el mundo. Así el casero puede chupar tres mil, y quedan dos mil limpias con las que se vive bien.¿Qué podría salir mal? ¿Y quién paga ese dinero? ¿Acaso importa? Por supuesto todo esto se desmonta con el mismo argumento que ha sustentado las subidas. El mismo que los caseros de Ibiza han aplicado con descaro. Renovar coche y muebles cada pocos años porque tengo dinerito. ¿Por qué? Porque puedo.Es una suerte de ley de hierro inversa de los precios. Mientras te pueda soplar un poco más sin que tengas que estar desnudo por la calle, sin comer, y sin dormir bajo techo, ¿por qué no lo voy a hacer?Por supuesto, nada de mirar al largo plazo. Nada de reflexionar que eso no puede sostenerse para siempre. En el momento en que una parte significativa de la población se ha vuelto lo bastante taruga como para no saber vivir sin poner el cazo, y la otra parte harta de todo y haciendo lo justo para sobrevivir, el sistema está condenado. ¿Que no puede pasar? Miren la extinta URSS, donde el Estado hacía como que pagaba y los trabajadores hacían como que trabajaban. Hasta que se cayó por su propio pesoLo malo de esta situación es que, como en la URSS, llegará el colapso, y muchos aún creerán que el sistema era bueno y alguien con oscuros intereses lo ha echado abajo.
Para que nos hagamos una idea, yo he llegado a escuchar durante la crisis de 2008, a gente bien preparada, decir que porque no se quitaba el 25 por ciento de los ahorros a los ahorradores para dárselo a los hipotecados y pudieran pagar los pisos. Ese es el nivel.
Benzino, en el caso de la URSS, que los EEUU decidiesen endeudarse para gastos militares sabiendo que los rusos no podían hacerlo, más el pacto con los saudíes para mantener el petróleo barato, y el asunto de Chernobil ayudaron lo suyo
2024 y 2025 van a ser claramente los años de la caída de las caretas. Ya está pasando. Otra cosa es la resolución completa del asunto, me temo que eso de una década no va a bajar. Y si pasa antes será porque antes habrán colapsado los servicios por falta de suficientes trabajadores.
Cita de: Benzino Napaloni en Enero 28, 2024, 13:13:42 pm2024 y 2025 van a ser claramente los años de la caída de las caretas. Ya está pasando. Otra cosa es la resolución completa del asunto, me temo que eso de una década no va a bajar. Y si pasa antes será porque antes habrán colapsado los servicios por falta de suficientes trabajadores.Es que no aguantamos a este ritmo diez años, o los precios de todo se reducen drásticamente en dos o tres o petamos. Y con el nivel de hijoputismo que hay - todos contra todos intentando expoliarse unos a otros- esto si que puede acabar muy mal, porque el individualismo liberal ha creado la sociedad de mercado que queria en la que no hay sentido de lo colectivo. Es como si esto fuera " roba todo lo que puedas Marujita, que se acaba y ya da igual todo"
Por cierto, Menéame lleva fino un tiempo con las noticias sobre el pisito y los problemas de los jóvenes para acceder al alquiler.No sé si hay comentarios que son simples troleos, o realmente son caseros caraduras repitiendo mantras. El caso es que, efectivamente, vivir de la gorra y del pisito son las nuevas oposiciones y funcionariado. Lo malo de esto, una vez más, es que o hay agallas desde los mandos para cortarlo, o caerá por su propio peso pero arrasando con todo por el camino.Hasta que el sextercio ya no valer nada.
Cita de: Benzino Napaloni en Enero 28, 2024, 10:52:45 amPor cierto, Menéame lleva fino un tiempo con las noticias sobre el pisito y los problemas de los jóvenes para acceder al alquiler.No sé si hay comentarios que son simples troleos, o realmente son caseros caraduras repitiendo mantras. El caso es que, efectivamente, vivir de la gorra y del pisito son las nuevas oposiciones y funcionariado. Lo malo de esto, una vez más, es que o hay agallas desde los mandos para cortarlo, o caerá por su propio peso pero arrasando con todo por el camino.Hasta que el sextercio ya no valer nada.En Menéame reside la mayor hipocresía. Todos híper socialistas pero ninguno cuestiona el pisito.Espectacular el nivel de hipocresía y falta de integridad de esa página de noticias.Saludos
ECB’s Knot Says Wage Numbers Needed Before Rate Cut PossibleGetting back to 2% inflation is a ‘narrow path,’ he saysDutch central bank chief speaks on public broadcasterThe European Central Bank must have certainty on wages in order to be able to lower interest rates, according to Governing Council member Klaas Knot.There’s a “credible outlook” to bring inflation back to the ECB’s 2% goal in 2025, he said in an interview on Dutch state broadcaster NPO1 on Sunday.“The only piece of the puzzle we are missing is the absolute conviction that wage growth will adapt to slower inflation,” Knot, who’s among the more hawkish rate setters, told the Buitenhof TV program. “When that piece of the puzzle falls into place, we will be able to lower the interest rate a bit.”His comments are in line with those of some of his colleagues — including Chief Economist Philip Lane — who have suggested that the ECB needs clarity on salary increases in order to be able to lower borrowing costs. As those data won’t be available until the end of April, that would make June the most likely time for a first step.Markets expecte the ECB to move more quickly. Encouraged by President Christine Lagarde pushing back less forcefully than expected against bets for a cut as early as the spring, investors stepped up their April wagers after Thursday’s rate decision.The faster timeline also got additional ammunition this weekend, with French central bank chief Francois Villeroy de Galhau saying in an interview with La Tribune Dimanche that all options are open at upcoming meetings.“We can only have sustainable price stability if wages growth goes back to a pace of about 2.5% — the latest wage growth in Europe is at 5%,” Knot said on Sunday. “That trajectory won’t occur from one day to the other,” he said.There will be “a couple of years in which we think that the wage growth will be higher than inflation, allowing a restoration of purchasing power,” the Dutch central banker said.Yet that won’t stand in the way of inflation going back to 2%, as “there’s still space in the profit margins to pay these higher salaries without a drastic second round for price hikes,” he said. “But it is a narrow path.”
Germany's Scholz calls for completion of EU capital markets unionBerlin, Jan 28 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Sunday for the European Union to complete its creation of a banking and capital markets union so the bloc can compete with the U.S. and China for new technologies.Scholz told a conference in Berlin for European delegates of his Social Democrats (SPD) party that this was a key issue for economic growth and the creation of jobs in Europe.The single market is far too fragmented, especially when it comes to financial issues, which is why the EU, with more than 400 million inhabitants, is unable to make full use of its power, he said."That's why we need to complete the European project so that European companies can rise," Scholz said.The plan to create a single market for capital has been on the table since 2015 without any real progress.Scholz also called for a minimum tax rate for companies of 15% to be introduced in all EU countries. "Isn't that possibly also the basis for the banking and capital markets union to work?" he asked.There has been concern that banks would choose to be based in an EU country with very low taxes "and if things go wrong, all European taxpayers will have to pay," Scholz noted.The heads of EU institutions called for a strengthened euro and progress towards a capital markets union in a joint appeal in December.
Julius Baer set to announce writeoff linked to Signa exposure, SonntagsZeitung reportsGENEVA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Wealth manager Julius Baer (BAER.S), opens new tab is set to announce a writeoff related to its exposure to property group Signa that may be around 400 million Swiss francs ($463 million), Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung said on Sunday.Fears over the bank's ties to property and retail group Signa, whose holding company filed for insolvency in November, has already affected its share price in recent months.One analyst had previously estimated the bank's losses in relation to Signa, controlled by Austrian magnate Rene Benko, at around 400 million Swiss francs.The bank declined to comment. The newspaper said the writedown would be announced on Thursday.Julius Baer has said in the past that it had exposure of 606 million Swiss francs - the largest in its private debt loan book - to a European conglomerate.
Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPOFirm, advisers considering figure after early investor talksPrivate trades value social media company below $5 billionReddit Inc. is weighing feedback from early meetings with potential investors in its initial public offering that it should consider a valuation of at least $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, even as it is estimated below that figure in the volatile market for shares of private companies.The San Francisco-based social media company and its advisers are targeting a valuation in the mid-single-digit billions, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is private. The ultimate figure will depend on the IPO market’s nascent recovery, the people said. Reddit is considering a possible listing as soon as March, the people said.(...)The valuations under consideration demonstrate the extent of tech’s retreat from the heady days of the private funding boom that peaked in 2021. Reddit raised funds that year at a $10 billion valuation, and could potentially have been valued as much as $15 billion in an IPO, Bloomberg News reported in 2022.Instead, the market for first-time share sales froze, tech giants began rounds of layoffs and the companies that did go public were valued at less than where they raised money privately. Instacart, whose valuation peaked at $39 billion in March 2021, debuted in September 2023 at a $9.9 billion valuation. As of Friday, it has a market value of about $7.1 billion.(...)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/ecb-rate-cuts-knot-says-wage-data-needed-before-rate-move-possibleCitarECB’s Knot Says Wage Numbers Needed Before Rate Cut PossibleGetting back to 2% inflation is a ‘narrow path,’ he saysDutch central bank chief speaks on public broadcaster“The only piece of the puzzle we are missing is the absolute conviction that wage growth will adapt to slower inflation,” Knot, who’s among the more hawkish rate setters, told the Buitenhof TV program. “When that piece of the puzzle falls into place, we will be able to lower the interest rate a bit.” [/i][/color]
ECB’s Knot Says Wage Numbers Needed Before Rate Cut PossibleGetting back to 2% inflation is a ‘narrow path,’ he saysDutch central bank chief speaks on public broadcaster“The only piece of the puzzle we are missing is the absolute conviction that wage growth will adapt to slower inflation,” Knot, who’s among the more hawkish rate setters, told the Buitenhof TV program. “When that piece of the puzzle falls into place, we will be able to lower the interest rate a bit.” [/i][/color]
Es la única pieza que les falta del puzle? Pues vaya, lo que está claro es que la pieza que nunca pronuncian con tanta claridad es la de la vivienda. Bueno, pues cuando les encaje la pieza de los salarios tipos de interés al 2% / 2,5%, y la pieza de la vivienda, la niña bonita de las piezas, otra vez estará salerosa.
ECB's wage obsession, Meloni v. the Agnellis, illegal sand mining & R-rated profits.
Es la única pieza que les falta del puzle? Pues vaya, lo que está claro es que la pieza que nunca pronuncian con tanta claridad es la de la vivienda. Bueno, pues cuando les encaje la pieza de los salarios tipos de interés al 2% / 2,5%, y la pieza de la vivienda, la niña bonita de las piezas, otra vez estará salerosa. Cita de: Derby en Enero 28, 2024, 17:27:41 pmhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/ecb-rate-cuts-knot-says-wage-data-needed-before-rate-move-possibleCitarECB’s Knot Says Wage Numbers Needed Before Rate Cut PossibleGetting back to 2% inflation is a ‘narrow path,’ he saysDutch central bank chief speaks on public broadcaster“The only piece of the puzzle we are missing is the absolute conviction that wage growth will adapt to slower inflation,” Knot, who’s among the more hawkish rate setters, told the Buitenhof TV program. “When that piece of the puzzle falls into place, we will be able to lower the interest rate a bit.” [/i][/color]