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QE3 will be different

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... Opportunity Fund portfolio manager at Fidelity. "So you can relive stress in the mortgage funding markets, but if everyone [Americans] is under water on their house they can't refinance and are stuck." On the other hand, Howitt said, if they are not ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... campaign. However, the immediate take-away is that we might not get anymore bad European debt crisis news until after the Americans vote. Or would we?

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... night, data on consumer credit - down by US$3.28 billion (versus expectations of a US$9.2 bil increase) - indicated that Americans are still deleveraging. This, along with weak employment growth and falling household confidence - down to 60.6 in August ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... June) -- point to continued unsatisfactory gains in employment in the coming months. This means that apart from those Americans without jobs, there's still something for everyone in the latest US jobs stats. It's gaining strength... but not strong enough ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... or 0.09 per cent, to 4,209.9. NEW YORK - US stocks came back from early losses but ended lower overall due to signs Americans are spending at a slower pace. Company data showed US shoppers slowed their spending in June, resulting in tepid sales for many ...

10m Aussies 'Like' Facebook

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
A new survey reveals 50% of Americans think Facebook is just a passing fad, but don't tell that to the 10 million Australians that use it, making Australia on a per capita basis one of Facebook's best markets. According to telephone survey of 1004 American ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... the beginning of the year, sent buyers running for the doors. The data also suggested that many tens of thousands of Americans had also dropped out of the jobs market altogether, a bad sign for household incomes. At the close the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... 11.6% heading into the three-month mark of the year 2012. How good is that? That's heaps better than the current 0% Americans can get on cash or the 2.3% yield offered by 10-year Treasuries. While the bugbear that is Europe is seemingly at peace now ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... traded between 106.44 US cents and 107.16 cents. On Thursday night, Australian time, it was reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits last week hadn't changed and remained at its lowest level in four years. There was more good ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... November from 9.2% in the previous month is highly suspect and/or due to the sharp drop in the participation rate - Americans are discouraged from looking for work because they can't find one anyway - but the underlying indications from the non-farm ...