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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... jobs last month, matching forecasts from economists. The Labor Department is expected to report on Friday that the unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 per cent last month and that employers cut 50,000 jobs. Concern about the economy eased after debt-burdened ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... for, it's neighbours are showing signs of improvement as well. This is underscored by the unexpected fall in Japan's unemployment rate to a 10-month low of 4.9 per cent in January from 5.2 per cent in the previous month as the economy added 540K jobs ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... matures". Not enough? We could throw in reports that last night the US Senate approved a US$13 billion plan to fight unemployment and US$2 billion to state and local governments to help them float bonds for their construction projects. The housing sector ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... tries to keep a tentative economic recovery on track. Bernanke, in his semiannual report to Congress, said he saw unemployment remaining stubbornly high, which would require the Fed to stay on its stimulative path, doing little to change monetary policy. ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... agencies after 31 March. What does Benny think? Are these still going as planned? Or given the stickiness in the US unemployment rate, are more stimuli required? The hearing -- called "Prospects for Employment Growth: Is Additional Stimulus Needed?" ...

Baby steps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... boss, Bill Gross, told Reuters: "I don't think the Fed dares increase the fed funds or policy rate in the face of unemployment at double-digit type of levels. This is more of a technical manoeuvre." And this is what he had to say to CNBC: "The timing ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... report showed that the domestic economy added 52,700 jobs last month - the fifth straight monthly increase - and the unemployment rate dropping to 5.3 per cent from 5.5 per cent in December. While other developed nations are incessantly scratching their ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... volume of 14,294 contracts. Austock securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said better-than-expected unemployment figures released on Thursday and the financial sector had put a sparkle into the local market. "The banks are really galloping ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... the recession - more than a million more than the previous estimate of 7.2 million. Something for the bulls. The unemployment rate dropped to 9.7 per cent in January from 10.0 per cent in December despite an increase in the participation rate. Jobs in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... the final hour. The US non-farm payrolls report, which showed the US economy lost 20,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate fell to 9.7 per cent, also presented a muddled picture on the troubled labour sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...