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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... Employment. Despite eye-grabbing news about sackings, retrenchments and job losses here, there and everywhere, there are jobs a-plenty with some 15,500 heads added to payrolls last month. Mind you, this followed a 37.6K surge in March. The unemployment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... investors over Greece's future. European surveys indicated the economy slowing sharply across the board while the latest US jobs numbers showed no marked improvement in hiring, the key development needed to increase demand and get the economy moving ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... out over the weekend reported that US Pres Obama and the rest of the G-8 declared that that their governments must boost jobs and economic growth and cut debt at the same time. Yes, that simple! A compromise. Why didn't the Eurozone think of this? Duh! ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... better-than-expected unemployment rate and expectations that another cut to interest rates will be forthcoming despite the stronger jobs figures. Australia's monthly jobless rate unexpectedly dropped to 4.9 per cent in April, when economists had expected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... meetings. In Australia, the market on Monday took a beating, after renewed concerns over the euro zone and disappointing jobs data in the United States sent spooked investors running for the exits. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 94.7 points, or ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... local market was lower due to falls on Wall Street caused by lower than expected US job figures. "They got 60,000 to 70,000 jobs lower than expected which caused Wall Street to go down and America sets the tone for the rest of us," he said. "In the local ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... folks, we're still looking at a half-filled empty glass. Or is it a half-empty glass full? Take your pick. Looking at the jobs numbers from a broader perspective, it's half filled. The US economy has made good strides in whittling down the jobless rate ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... The Australian market looks set to open lower following the lead of Wall Street which ended its last session down on weak jobs data. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down 51 points at 4,340. In economic news on ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... mark over yesterday's ADP private payrolls report showing that services accounted for most of the growth in private sector jobs created in April. Yes, the US labour market is slowing. Then again, maybe not. Those expecting that the actual jobs number ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... sharply higher borrowing costs on three- and five-year debt. HONG KONG - Asian markets have mostly fallen following more weak jobs data from the United States and Europe as well as figures showing euro zone manufacturing falling for a ninth straight ...