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Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... and old London town. The S&P 500 and the Dow each jumped by 1.4% overnight in spite of another disappointing report on the jobs front. Yes Virginia, the same one that sent many scampering for the exits at the beginning of this week. Jobless claims rose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... showing eurozone industrial production rose in February. Helping as well was inconclusive data on US trade, producer prices and jobs that pointed to only modest economic growth in the first quarter. Analysts said the data suggested the Federal Reserve ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... in the financial markets only yesterday, doesn't it? The foul mood that was sparked by disappointment over one month's US jobs number. The one that supposedly negated all the other better-than-expected econ and survey stats coming out of America over ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... markets fell sharply on renewed concerns about the eurozone and global growth prospects owing to weak Chinese trade and US jobs data. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dropped 2.24 per cent to 5,595.55 points on the first trading day for Europe's leading ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... period. And now, now, you're telling me that the world has turned upside down? It has because of one month's disappointing US jobs report? It only reinforces the start of the year outlook that 2012 US growth would be slow. And this is bad because? Au ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... markets fell sharply on renewed concerns about the eurozone and global growth prospects owing to weak Chinese trade and US jobs data. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dropped 2.24 per cent to 5,595.55 points on the first trading day for Europe's leading ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened one per cent lower as investors reacted to weak US jobs figures released at the start of easter break. At 1016 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 40.1 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,279.7 ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... fear is the latest update on the US labour market. The Labor Department reported the US economy increased by only 120,000 jobs last month - far less than expectations for a 203K gain and the 200K or so added over the past three months. The knee-jerk ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... market on Monday was closed for the Easter public holiday. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled Monday after last week's disappointing jobs report showed a slowdown in hiring that raised concerns about the strength of the economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... the strengthening momentum in the US economy. ADP Employer Services reported that the economy added 209,000 private sector jobs in March. This is higher than expectations for a 206,000 gain. Better still, it revised up January and February's estimate ...