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They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... even possible that the committee would adopt Chicago Fed President Evans' proposal to signal no rate hikes until the unemployment rate has fallen to a specific level (in Evans' version 7%) unless underlying inflation rises above a specific threshold ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... non-farm payrolls report. Employment increased by 96,000 last month against expectations for a 125K gain. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% from 8.3%, this was a function of the drop in the participation rate from 63.7% to 63.5% in August as ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... reinforce or weaken the markets' negative view on the Australian economy. Market consensus is for an increase in the unemployment to 5.3% from 5.2% in July (expectations were for a 5.3% print that month). Let's wait and see how the bloggerati now spin ...

So where's the QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... balance sheet tools and communication tools -- since 2007 and their positive effect on the economy. "As of July, the unemployment rate had fallen to 8.3 percent from its cyclical peak of 10 percent and payrolls had risen by 4 million jobs from their ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... down by 1.8 points from July to 86.1 points in a fifth consecutive monthly slide, undermined market sentiment. And unemployment in Germany rose for the fifth month in a row in August in a further sign that Europe's recent growth engine is losing steam. ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... the four-week moving average of claims, has fallen to 368K -- below the 400K economists' estimate would bring the unemployment rate down - from 405K last year. So all good? Errr... perhaps, if the US economy is operating in a vacuum. But it ain't. The ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... gloom and doom since. Sure the improvement in America's economy had been slow, but it's improving nonetheless. The unemployment rate has come down to 8.3% in July from 10% in October 2009. The annual growth in retail spending has averaged 5.4% in the ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... that wage pressures may have troughed." "Material surprise" my backside. Doesn't he look at other stats? Say, the unemployment stats? Australia's unemployment rate printed at 5.2% in July and it had been at or below 5.5% (my guess of the NAIRU - non-accelerating ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... praying for another Ben blast of the QE? Perhaps it's because of the flipside of the non-farm payrolls report - the unemployment rate rose to 8.3% from 8.2% in June. Either Mr. Market does not believe that the US economy is getting healthy or that he ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates after latest data releases showed that our economy continue to be lucky - the unemployment rate dipped to 5.2% in July, retail sales grew by 5.4% in the year to June (the fastest since 2009) and home loan approvals ...