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Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... one swallow does not a spring make. The strong US PMI reading for the US, for instance, coincides with reports that US jobless claims increased by 28K - more than expected and the biggest one week jump since December. Similarly, why do expectations for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... 2000 has contributed to the broader market's malaise over the last month or so. The US Labor Department reported initial jobless claims, a measure of the pace of layoffs, totalled 326,000 in the week ending May 17, a gain of 28,000 from the prior week. ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
Was it good? Was it bad? Was it the weather? Was it not? We're talkin' about America's mother-of-all-eco-stats - the US non-farm payrolls report - released last week. Too bad we won't know for sure what the market's general consensus is coz geo-politics ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... and have kept on improving, some have even whizzed passed their pre-GFC highs. Last night for instance, we learned that jobless claims in America dropped by a bigger-than-expected 32K to its lowest level (300K) since May 2007 - that was 7 months before ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... trade deficit for February jumped to $US42.3 billion ($A45.87 billion) from $US39.3 billion in January. Meanwhile, US jobless claims last week increased 16,000 to 326,000. Locally, no major economic or equities news is expected on Friday. In Australia ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
A change of noun is all it took. Yes Virginia, by just changing the noun that followed the word "considerable", Fed Chair Janet Yellen put the smile back on many a-Wall Streeter's faces. Less than two weeks ago, Janet explained the considerable "time" ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... unemployment was still a big challenge for the economy and that the Fed would maintain its extraordinary measures until the jobless rate fell a lot more. "The recovery still feels like a recession to many Americans, and it also looks that way in some ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... of the state of the labour market and speculations are it would be show improvement given the positive lead from weekly jobless claims.

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... calculated in the first estimate. Good or bad, this is old news. Then again, fresher data provided no fresh direction too. US jobless claims fell by more than expected - good news on the labour market - but pending home sales dropped when they were expected ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... grew 2.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, expanding more strongly than previously thought. And, US initial jobless claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, totalled 311,000 in the week to March 22, down from 321,000 the previous week, the Labor ...