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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... 4,491, with 7,165 contracts traded. Figures out on Friday showed a better than expected 0.3 per cent drop in the US unemployment rate to 7.8 per cent, when economists had been tipping a 8.2 per cent rate. But the figures were greeted with mixed feelings ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... good, that you could almost picture the Big O grinning from ear to ear perhaps even dancing the gangnam style. The unemployment rate dropped - big time - to 7.8% in September from 8.1% in the previous month. He's earned bragging rights right there that ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... the September data. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have leaped higher, boosted by a surprise drop in the US unemployment rate and on the back of upbeat comments from European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi. At the close on Friday, London's FTSE ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... better sales from retail stores helped push Wall Street higher. The government said that 367,000 Americans sought unemployment benefits for the first time last week, an increase from the previous week but fewer than economists had forecast. The Dow Jones ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... quibble over its seemingly never-ending debt crisis, demands for austerity will remain. Yes, that austerity that pushes unemployment (and taxes) higher and growth lower. Lower growth in Europe - oops, sorry what growth? - flows into slower activity in ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... luck to you Prime Minister Rajoy or it'll be goodbye. Just ask Bloomberg. Its headline says it all, "Euro-Region Unemployment Rate Rises to Record 11.4%" in August. Nah, this is plain wrong. Revisions show that the jobless stats were already at this ...

Emerging market PE numbers on track

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... Neuberger Berman. Places like Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico are characterised by stabilised inflation, falling unemployment and rising wages, which in turn is driving strong internal consumption. Central bank autonomy, fiscal reforms and clear ...

Peak in investment spend to herald lower growth: Barclays economist

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... Australian property continues to look significantly overvalued, Davies doesn't anticipate any notable correction, unless unemployment numbers weaken significantly. While he does expect it to increase to between 5.5% and 6% by 2014, Davies says unemployment ...

Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... jobs and economic activity that generally signal sustained improvement in labour market conditions and declining unemployment". Not only that, this time the Fed will provide policy accommodation even after the economy has already improved. "To support ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... jobs and economic activity that generally signal sustained improvement in labour market conditions and declining unemployment". And on the seventh day, the game changed. In a span of exactly one week, Super Mario's OMTs, the German Court's tick of approval ...