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Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... deutschemark would shoot up, German competitiveness erode, manufacturing and exporting companies would close down, unemployment rises, consumer spending falls, and so on. Then again, even assuming Greece votes to exit or is thrown out or contagion happens ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... a-plenty with some 15,500 heads added to payrolls last month. Mind you, this followed a 37.6K surge in March. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% from 5.2%. Wages. The Wage Price Index rose 0.9% in the March quarter following a 1.0% increase in the ...

Australian economy on target for growth: OECD

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... growth to be 3.1% in 2012 and 3.7% in 2013, despite rising tensions in Europe. The OECD also expects that Australia's unemployment rate will remain substantially lower than the 7.9% unemployment rate expected for the OECD as a whole in 2013, and around ...

Investors focus on Russian consumer stocks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... contributing factor to disposable income of consumers is the relatively low rate of income tax at 13% in combination with an unemployment rate of 6.5%, Hanson-Lawson said. Value within the area is not a given, with retailers proving expensive last year ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... the predicted end of days on 21-12-2012, that scenario is everyone's worst nightmare - an 8% drop in real GDP; the unemployment rate to hit 13% (it peaked at 10.2% back in 2009); house prices to slide by 21%; and, a 50% dive in stock market prices. And ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... last night, just a flipping of the flop in sentiment seen over the past few days. For last night we got news that US unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. Suddenly those worrying about the weakening American labour market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... its interest rate decision. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed higher, boosted by a better-than-expected unemployment rate and expectations that another cut to interest rates will be forthcoming despite the stronger jobs figures. Australia's ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... only 115,000 last month hit cyberspace and twitterverse. And... it's bad, it's bad, you know it. It's bad when the unemployment rate falls to 8.1% from 8.2% in March only because a huge number of them Yankees - all 342,000 of them - have given up looking ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... carrying the devil's child. Consensus expects the report to show that employment grew by 160,00 in April with the unemployment rate holding at a three-year low of 8.2%. Would the actual print disappoint like the less than expected 120K added to payrolls ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... per cent. LONDON - European stock markets gave up early gains to close mixed as a slowing economy pushed euro zone unemployment to a record high and US jobs data added to the gloomy outlook. London's FTSE 100 index fell 0.93 per cent to close at 5,758.11 ...