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The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... ability to maintain the economic growth within a reasonable range." The wait will culminate with the release of the US employment report this week. This would be the first "clean" read (not weather-distorted) of the state of the labour market and speculations ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... Non-farm Payrolls report, did not contain any shocking information to change the Fed's thoughts on monetary policy. US employment increased by 175K in February. This is better than market expectations for a 150K. Better, December and January payroll ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... January and therefore, points to continued well, expansion in the US economy. How the markets see and hear the January US employment report - set for release later tonight - would be crucial in setting the tone for financial markets over at least... ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... controls on the major labor force series will be included in the January 2014 release." We can blame this too if the US employment numbers don't go our way.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... slightly lower after disappointing US jobs figure. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Hefferan said the most recent US employment figures may have fallen short of expectations but had followed two months of very strong growth. "The US economy, in my ...

Unwind for Xmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... begins, is it not? If I also remember right, markets were under pressure early last week because of fear of taper if US employment rises above 200K. Well, the November jobs report showed not only employment growing by much more - 203K - over the month ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
Surprisingly good data on US employment has snapped a four day losing streak on the local share market. A 21,000 drop in American jobless claims for November buoyed Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its highest close ever, above ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... Perhaps what's new is that little piece of "data" that received little attention from the press overnight - the US employment cost index (ECI). US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures released last night showed that America's employment cost index ...

Good, bad: all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... greater demand this quarter. That may be so given the following day's good news on US non-farm payrolls for October. US employment increased by 204,000 last month - much, much more than expectations for a 120,000 addition. It's not good it's great particularly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
The Australian share market looks set to open slightly higher after Wall Street rose on encouraging US employment data. At 0740 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,147. In economic news on Friday ...