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Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... America added only 39,000 jobs in November -- well below market expectations for an addition of 145,000 - and the unemployment rate skipped a couple of notches to 9.8 per cent from 9.6 per cent in October. But have no fear, the Fed is here. Cyberspace ...

Market Wrap - Mid Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... points, with 10,832 contracts traded. Markets on Wall Street rallied on stronger-than-expected first-time claims for unemployment benefits and a rise in US monthly incomes and spending in October. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 150.91 points ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... more forthright, it was more explicit in lowering America's growth forecast for 2011 and raising its prediction for unemployment in 2011 and 2012. Speaking of unemployment, talk on cyberspace is that it was the better-than-expected US jobless claims ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... you know, the one where they announced mo' money, US$600 billion of it - revealed their concern over growth and the unemployment. They lowered their growth outlook, expecting the economy to grow by 3-3.6 per cent next year - down from 3.5-4.2 per cent ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... heads are included for extra fun. Yes Virginia, just when we thought that the Fed has whack the head of deflation and unemployment in the United States of America with its freshly minted US$600 billion mallet, two heads popped up - China and Ireland ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... billion a month - US$110 bil if you include QE1) - it'll be primarily because it sees its fight against deflation and unemployment has been won.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... Australian share market closed stronger with buyers snapping up materials stocks after an early dip on worse than expected unemployment data. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 28.8 points, or 0.61 per cent, at 4,728.6 points, while the broader All ...

QE2 overstays welcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... the Fed's price stability objective might no longer be a compelling policy rationale. In such a case--even with the unemployment rate still high--the FOMC would have cause to consider the path of policy." But despite all the critiques and recriminations ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... supporting the US war against terror, it's also said nothing about the US Federal Reserve's war against deflation and unemployment. Unlike the increasing number of countries voicing their protests against the Fed's US$75 billion a month worth of quantitative ...

The Cup, the RBA and the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... walking on a tightrope. Keep interest rates steady and it risk unleashing inflationary expectations. Australia's unemployment rate - at 5.1 per cent - is about half the rate of joblessness in the United States and Europe and is back to its lowest level ...