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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... 2007. Positive comments from United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, including expectations that the unemployment rate would keep falling, helped Wall Street post its biggest gains of the year and the Dow Jones Industrial Average surge past ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... is that it's become more optimistic about the US expansion as "Labor market conditions have improved further, the unemployment rate has declined notably in recent months." And we're now beginning to see this flow through into consumer spending. US retail ...

Good bacteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... economy lost 15,400 jobs in February - worse than expectations for an increase in the headcount of 5,000 - and the unemployment rate rose to 5.2%. The RBA may not need to administer a stronger dose of Yakult if the virtuous cycle in the US continues ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... retrenchment currently being implemented by most member countries in the region. And did I mention, rising joblessness? The unemployment rate rose to a record high of 10.7% in January and the jobs component of the latest eurozone PMI survey tells us ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... "Markets are saying it's got to be dealt with and it will be dealt with." He said the market also had ignored the local unemployment figures, released on Thursday, which showed Australia's unemployment rate rose to 5.2 per cent in February, in line with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... half results. In Australia, the market on Friday higher after a positive lead from Wall Street, shrugging off higher unemployment levels in Europe. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17.6 points, or 0.41 per cent, at 4,273.1 points, while the broader ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... oil supply". Ahh yes, downside risks and Europe. A view given credence by stats released overnight. The Eurozone's unemployment rate rose to a euro-area record of 10.7% in January; its PMI remained in contraction territory with a reading of 49 in February ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... global investment solutions at UBS. Deleveraging will mean years of slowed growth coupled with structurally higher unemployment rates, lower provision of safety nets and welfare entitlements and higher taxes, according to Curt Custard, which will not ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... Obama signed into law last week. The one that extends a payroll-tax cut through the end of 2012, prolongs extended unemployment benefits, and prevents a cut in pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. And here's the last one. Investors who "bought ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... Obama signed a bill into law on Wednesday that extends a payroll-tax cut through the end of 2012, prolongs extended unemployment benefits, and prevents a cut in pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. The House and Senate passed the bill last week." ...