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Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... other Americans would be unable to apply for Social Security. The State Department might not issue new passports, unemployment statistics would not published as scheduled, museums and national parks would close, and worse - piles of elephant manure might ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases labour force data for March at 1130 AEST, including figures on employment and unemployment in the month. The Australian Industry Group and the Housing Industry Association issue their performance of construction index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... by 11.84 points to settle at 4,042.92. HONG KONG - Asian stocks mostly rose on Monday after the United States said unemployment hit a two-year low last month, while Japanese traders were lifted by a weaker yen. Optimism on Tokyo's Nikkei was subdued ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... market return? Heck, developed equity markets appreciated by 11.1 per cent over the same period - slow growth, high unemployment, fiscal austerity, warts and all. And as for the rest of the BRICs, attention-grabbing China recorded a 10.7 per cent slump ...

Hunter Hall defiant on Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... expects property developers, supermarkets and banks to be beneficiaries of the spread of urbanisation. Thailand, where unemployment is at 1 per cent and GDP growth is higher than that of China, is set to undergo huge local infrastructure development ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... 651 stocks up, 348 down and 371 unchanged. Wall Street closed higher on Friday, as traders welcomed a drop in US unemployment to 8.8 per cent in March, from 8.9 per cent in February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index ended up 0.46 per cent.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... cent, higher at 4,954.6 points. NEW YORK - US stock markets closed higher on Friday as traders welcomed a drop in US unemployment. Consumer goods firms led the Dow's rise, after news that the US jobless rate fell for the fourth straight month in March ...

Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... jumped by 230,000 in March - making the 185,000 gains financial markets were expecting a bearish projection. And the unemployment rate? It dipped to 8.8 per cent in March from 8.9 per cent in the previous month. This is also better than the expected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... record. Stocks ended the day mixed as the price of oil jumped to a 30-month high. Slightly disappointing reports on unemployment claims and factory orders also weighed on the market. The first-quarter gains were anything but an easy ride. Uprisings in ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... yet at that point" when "a change in the stance of monetary policy will be necessary." "Slow progress" in lowering unemployment "and underlying inflation trends that are too low lead me to conclude that substantial policy accommodation continues to be ...