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Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... more telling, despite rising to 8.6% in June (from 8.4% in May), the U-6 unemployment rate - which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as: "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Financial markets don't track the ADP private payrolls report as closely as they do the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report but if ADP's estimate for February is any guide, the official US non-farm payrolls report (due out at the end ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... to improve" with the "house price expectations' index up by 1.6% in October. US JOLTS report The US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) may lag the non-farm payrolls report but the latest indications from this survey ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... actual versus 4.8% expected. The average workweek's a miss - 34.3 hours versus 34.5 hours expected. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) report shows that while jobs in the service sector increased in August, those in mining, construction, utilities ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading of 13.2 - and down on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that non-farm payrolls increased by 287,000 in June. This is much, much more than even the highest forecast for ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... nothing else you and I and Irene could do but sit and wait. And by George, thank goodness that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) decided to publish the US Non-farm payrolls report a day early so our yankee doodle brethren can celebrate their Independence ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... baby, baby nooo". This, at least, was the message conveyed by Wall Street's performance on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the jobs numbers. They all fell down - US equities, that is. The S&P 500, down 1.4%; the Dow, down 1.5% ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... "considerable". "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers" - yup. The U-6 unemployment rate or what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... significant deceleration either). Then again, this report could well be just as quickly forgotten when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the official jobs tally for June... but this, too, had been trending sideways since 2011. You, I and ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... know. "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers" - check. The U-6 unemployment rate or what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time ...