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Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... higher oil prices, that is. That "signs of a strengthening job market" is the ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors private payrolls report showing 217,000 private sector jobs added in February - more than expectations for a 175,000 gain - from an upwardly revised ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... July 2008. Hey, that was before Lehman folded! Sure this is a volatile stat and undoubtedly, like the non-farm payrolls report - snow affected. But the report also showed that continuing claims continued their 2-year long trend of decline. Now ain't ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... those like me who logged on over the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I told you so!" Pessimists would point ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... expected decline to 420,000 - continuing the downward trend seen over the past three months. Tonight's US non-farm payrolls report may disappoint expectations that 145,000 jobs were added in January - and a 9.5 per cent unemployment rate - but all these ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... chill. The financial markets' turnaround from fearful to festive was such that not even a disappointing US non-farm payrolls report spoiled their mood. America added only 39,000 jobs in November -- well below market expectations for an addition of 145,000 ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... so they can look after their mortgage... give everyone $1 million." As for jobs. The October private non-farm payrolls report showed employed Americans earned US$779.64 weekly. This translates to a total wage bill of US$40,541.28 a year. You know how ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... is now raising inflation expectations. Well done! And as for jobs, had 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 ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... already done their weekend reading probably know what I'm going to write about. Yes, it's the US private non-farm payrolls report for September - the one that shows that jobs in America are still hard to come by. Overall non-farm payrolls dropped by ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... engage in further monetary expansion. This speculation would gather more momentum if tonight's US overall non-farm payrolls report come in weaker than consensus expectations for zero growth in September. Private sector jobs are expected increase by 85,000. ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... was also up 3.8 per cent on the week by the way. "She comes with the light." Oh yeah, oh yeah. The US non-farm payrolls report - "the mother of all economic stats" - brought in the light with figures enough to put reasonable doubt into those willing ...