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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... the sovereign debt of many European countries," Mr Taylor said. "The other issue is, of course, concern about the unemployment rate and the pace of recovery in the US. "The overnight (US) jobless claims disappointed, and Greece, Portugal and Spain all ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... nations. And then there's the US. Oh, Miranda my Miranda, whereforth art thou my Miranda? News overnight showed that US unemployment claims increased by 8,000 to 480,000 last week - the fourth increase in five weeks, highest level in two months and more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... news, including rising debt levels in European nations and an unexpected jump in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits, had investors pulling money out of assets such as stocks and commodities that are looking increasingly risky. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... Wednesday after rising earlier in the trading session as investors cashed in profits ahead of anxiously awaited US unemployment figures, due this week. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 30.16 points, or 0.57 per cent, to 5,253.15 points. FRANKFURT ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... boosting demand, as is an upturn in housing construction. Investment in the resources sector is strong. The rate of unemployment appears to have peaked at a much lower level than earlier expected....Credit for housing has been expanding at a solid pace ...

One down, more to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... to Australia when the RBA first started raising interest rates? But it was not to be...and rightly so. Not with US unemployment still at double-digits and not with the US housing market weakening again. Then again, the Fed's tenor has positive written ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... President Barack Obama proposed rules that would limit the types of trading banks can do with their money. Rising unemployment claims and disappointing manufacturing data added to the pessimism in the world's bigges economy. European stocks also slipped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... earnings news was tempered by an unexpected jump in initial jobless claims. The Labor Department said workers filing for unemployment benefits for the first time rose by 36,000 to 482,000 last week. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Consumer Inflationary Expectations for January. Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release a survey of Consumer Unemployment Expectations for January. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases new vehicles sales for December. The Australian Office ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... the typical response would be to spend, spend... and spend some more. Recent data out of the US supports this. The unemployment rate remains at double-digits -- looked at another way, 6.9 million workers lost their jobs last year. Jobless claims have ...