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Plum pickings in international equities: K2

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... emerging markets and emerging battery technology. He also believes US domestic cyclicals could perform well as the US employment picture begins to recover. Griffin described his approach as stock picking, with more of an emphasis on growth than value. ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... rise. But, yes there's a but... some still doubt whether this could be sustained given the still weak labour market. US employment rose by a meagre 39,000 in November and the jobless rate jumped to 9.8 percent. Here's my but or butt, whichever you prefer. ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... the Fed waited for the October non-farm payrolls report, it might have snipped a bit off the total amount of QE2. US employment rose by 151,000 in October - heaps better than expectations for a 60,000 increase. And heap, heaps better, upward revisions ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... lower at noon, following a weak lead from Wall Street as traders remain on the sidelines in the lead-up to a key US employment report. At 1204 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 18.3 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 4,673.0 points, while the broader ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... abyss. This, if you believe the talking heads and the written words on the financial media after the latest update on US employment hit trading screens last Friday night. The numbers. Overall employment fell by 131,000 in July. This is greater than consensus ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... number change the underlying outlook for the US labour market? The answer is contained in two letters - N and O. US employment is improving but jobs are not growing fast enough. This series hops, jumps and skips from one week to another. The less volatile ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... Monday for the Independence Day holiday. LONDON - European stock markets closed broadly higher on Friday after mixed US employment figures that analysts said pointed to modest economic growth ahead. The FTSE 100 index gained 32.34 points, or 0.67 per ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... 33.3 per cent in the same month. Financial markets would again be holding their collective breath ahead of Friday's US employment report. Here, expectations are not good. The drop-off in census workers is expected to reduce the headline non-farm payrolls ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months." The only positive thing that could be said about the May US employment report is that it marked the fifth month in six that jobs were added to the economy. So where do we go from here? Do we just ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... but have you heard what markets expect Friday's US non-farm payrolls report to show? Financial markets expect the US employment report to show that 510,000 jobs were created in May. That's a lot of jobs for a single month - in fact, if the actual number ...