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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... (0.25 per cent) to 3,018.64. Trading drifted despite fresh economic data with a positive bent. US initial claims for unemployment insurance, an indicator of the pace of layoffs, fell by 6,000 to 361,000 in the week to August 4. Meanwhile, the trade deficit ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... treading water... You continue to do it until you have documented evidence that you're getting growth in income and the unemployment rate consistent with your economic goals." "For the last seven months we've been treading water. That's different from ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... finish to US and European weeks," he said. "We had a better than expected jobs creation in the US, but we saw the unemployment rate tick up to 8.3 per cent, so that kept alive the hope that the Fed would step in and do something next month at their mid ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... Employment was better than the 100K expected. Yippee! But this is not enough to shift growth into higher gear and reduce unemployment - the jobless rate rose to 8.3% in July from 8.2% in the previous month. The July jobs data is the best hiring month ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... actuals would need to beat expectations by 100% -- most economists agree 200K monthly growth is needed - to dent the unemployment rate. Now is the time for the ECB too, not even after staring at a euro record high unemployment rate of 11.2% and the Eurozone's ...

Going for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... measures currently being implemented in various shape and form in Europe are pulling down economic growth and raising unemployment levels in the periphery and has even to start to impact Germany. Believe that "the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes ...

Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... repeat of past QE (if necessary) promises made. "Reflecting its concerns about the slow pace of progress in reducing unemployment and the downside risks to the economic outlook, the Committee made clear at its June meeting that it is prepared to take ...

Lost

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... global growth (including the formerly resilient emerging markets) is slowing, there's the fiscal cliff, still high unemployment in the US, a rising one in Europe, central bank policy accommodation and/or QE measures are bringing in less bang for the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... index futures contract was unchanged at 4,038. The US markets have fallen with traders shrugging off data showing US unemployment claims had fallen to their lowest level since March 2008. Locally, no major economic news is expected on Friday. In equities ...