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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... up 34.9 points, or 0.63 per cent, at 5,542.8. NEW YORK - US stocks have advanced, extending the prior day's gains after jobless claims increased but overall the data continued to suggest an improving labour market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... full year results. In Australia, the market on Thursday flat, shrugging off a 12-year high in the unemployment rate. The jobless rate rate rose to 6.4 per cent in July, a 12-year high. It had been expected to remain at six per cent. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... the lowest level in nearly six years. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) predict that the jobless rate would fall to 5.8% by yearend. The lead from the claimant count unemployment stats gives credence to this prediction. UK ...

FSC Conference: Follow the biopsychosocial model, life companies told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The future of the life insurance industry depends on the deeper understanding and implementation of the biopsychosocial model, life company executives have heard. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference, Robin Chase of the ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
"We think it's a significant package... Are we finished? The answer is no." "The Governing Council decided to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... unemployment rate would drop below 6.0% by the end of this year?A Well, well, well... with six more months to go, the jobless rate is already at 6.1%. However (I'm not in the mood for buts this morning), I just wonder whether Wall Street's surge is due ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... forward? Why...because it makes sense. If James really knows better than the markets and his Fed colleagues - that the jobless rate would fall below 6% and inflation would be closer to 2.0% by year end - it's good for Wall Street for it indicates that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dipped 3.51 (0.08 per cent) to 4,359. The Labor Department reported initial jobless claims fell by 6,000 last week, while the Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators rose 0.5 per cent in May. ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
Push has now come to shove. Yes Virginia, freshly-released data on the state of inflation and unemployment may have just done it - that is, remove whatever doubts linger that Super Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... advanced to 83 in May from 81.7 in the previous month." Add to this last night's positive indication on the US labour market. Jobless dropped by 27,000 in the week ended 24 May to 300K - better than expectations for a fall to 319K. Sure, sure... they ...