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The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... productive private sector and a reduction in the public sector (good for lessening the fiscal deficit). And oh, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3% in January from 8.5% in the previous month. - This is the lowest in three years and the fifth consecutive ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... turned the corner. The US economy generated 243,000 new jobs in January, way above the 155,000 forecast, with the unemployment rate falling to 8.3 per cent, a near three-year low, from 8.5 per cent. Talks continue to drag on between Athens and its creditors ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... triple consensus projections for a 100K increase. Why wait when last night's jobless claims showed applications for unemployment insurance dropped to a bigger-than-expected 367K in the week ended 28 January. Both reports point to continued improvement ...

Nikkei not nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... prices later. Worsening labour market conditions also point to softer retail spending in the months to come. Japan's unemployment rate increase to 4.6% in December - worse than market expectations - from 4.5% in the previous month. This negative outlook ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... market and the attendant weakness in retail spending. How soft? The Age's website printed how soft. "AUSTRALIA'S unemployment rate is heading towards a nine-year high of 6 per cent, economists say, with some industries preparing to slash staff and other ...

Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... 2013 (down from 3.0%-3.5%). And while growth is expected to accelerate by 3.3%-4.0% in 2014, the Fed expects the unemployment rate to remain high - 6.7%-7.6%. Fortunately for us all, financial markets saw this in a positive light. The certainty the timing ...

Australian economic fundamentals solid: Swan

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... "While no country can expect to be immune from the global threats identified by the IMF, Australia has solid growth, unemployment at half the levels of Europe, a massive investment pipeline, contained inflation and very low government debt," said Swan. ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... that disappeared in the previous month - making 2011 the worst year in the domestic labour market since 1992. The unemployment rate steadied at 5.2% but this resulted largely from the 0.3% decline in the participation rate to 65.2%. Announcements and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... 4,278.6.NEW YORK - US stocks were rising in early trading following strong bank earnings and a decline in applications for unemployment benefits. The Dow Jones industrial average is up 16 points to 12,595 just after the market opened on Thursday. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... season also helped banking stocks. But investors remained cautious after official figures showed that Australia's unemployment rate remained flat at 5.2 per cent in December, below analysts' forecasts that the job market would add 5,000 new positions. ...