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Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... ''Jasmine Revolution''." Reports say that these so-called "Jasmine Revolution" had been sparked by corruption, high unemployment, and rising food inflation. But something doesn't make sense. The people in these countries have lived with corruption for ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans when he told his audience in Rockford, Illinois that, "With unemployment too high and inflation too low -- and both forecasted to stay that way over the next two years -- we have missed on both ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... after a strong manufacturing report overshadowed a bigger than expected rise in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said its index of manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region nearly doubled ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... deeper into all Australians' psyche. "It is worth recording that a combination, on the latest figures, of a 5 per cent unemployment rate and an inflation rate clearly 'in the 2's' is a pretty favourable one by the standards of recent decades." These ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... economy is growing (read, my QE is working) but still not enough to produce significant job creation and that "the unemployment rate probably will remain elevated for some time" (read, you still need my QE). This according to Big Ben, "If we're still ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... Representatives budget committee, said that the economic recovery appeared to have strengthened in the past few months but the unemployment rate remained high. "Stocks didn't show any meaningful reaction to Bernanke's comments, mostly because they didn't ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... Wall Street stocks gained ground on Friday to post their best weekly gains in two months, as a surprise fall in the unemployment rate to nine per cent from 9.4 per cent helped neutralise lower than expected jobs creation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... There were counter-arguments and arguments to counter-arguments. "Gloomy glums" argue that the sharp fall in the unemployment rate was only made possible because the labour force shrank by 504,000 to its lowest level since 1984. Workers are discouraged ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... 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 positive indications would eventually show up in this lagging indicator. But Big Ben doesn't want us to ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011