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Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... 5.1% of us are unemployed (full employment if you ask me). Remember the last Australian recession? That time, the jobless rate went from 5.8% (December 1989) to 11.1% (July 1992) and didn't fall below double digits until May 1994 - long after the recession ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... expectations that another cut to interest rates will be forthcoming despite the stronger jobs figures. Australia's monthly jobless rate unexpectedly dropped to 4.9 per cent in April, when economists had expected it to rise to 5.3 per cent, up from 5.2 ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... numbers from a broader perspective, it's half filled. The US economy has made good strides in whittling down the jobless rate from a 26-year high of 10% back in October 2009 to 8.1% last month. In addition, the April count made it the 19th straight month ...

Good memories

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... released on Friday night. Markets expect the report to show that total payrolls increased by 210K in Feb and for the jobless rate to remain steady at 8.3%. Gauging by that other labour market indicator released overnight, it looks likely that expectations ...

No please explain needed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... uneven and modest by historical standards." And while the Big B doesn't expect further "substantial declines" in the jobless rate, in the same breath he stressed that, "employment trends have improved somewhat in recent months". And oh, he also mentioned ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... mid-year correction this time around. The big one of course is the continued improvement in the labour market. The US jobless rate averaged 9.6% in 2010 and 9.0% last year. It's been steadily dropping since September 2011 and was clocked at 8.3% as at ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... rate for it has increased to 65.3% from 65.2%). Expectations? Only 10,000 positions would be added in Jan and the jobless rate would rise to 5.3%. Yippee ka yay! But (of course, there'll be a but), aren't we worshipping on the wrong altar? Have you seen ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... 8.5% in the previous month. - This is the lowest in three years and the fifth consecutive month of decline in the jobless rate. There were cheers all around. The DJ Euro Stoxx-50 index closed 1.5% higher and the FTSE-100 jumped by 1.8%, ignoring reports ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Australia's unemployment will reach 6%! Boy, oh, boy, then the America must really be in the mud - the Fed expects the jobless rate to drop to only 6.7% by 2014 (and that's the optimistic end of its forecast). "The manufacturing, retail, construction ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... is showing up in the labour market. Oh yes, yes, you've probably read somewhere that the sharp decline in the US jobless rate to 8.6% in November from 9.2% in the previous month is highly suspect and/or due to the sharp drop in the participation rate ...