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Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... dip in claims strengthened market conviction that the US payrolls report would show a 0.1 per cent increase in the jobless rate to 9.8 per cent in February with jobs shrinking by 50,000 jobs. And the weather should be prepared to get the finger if the ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... week's trading. Financial market betting centres on an additional 20,000 jobs lost in February and an increase in the jobless rate to 9.8 per cent. You'll be frozen where you stand too if this is what you're expecting. But apart from Greece -- which ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... expert now seems to be singing from the same songbook. I don't disagree with these reactions. It just amazes me how a jobless rate of 5.3 per cent is now used to describe the strength of the Australian economy and a rationale for an imminent RBA rate ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... within the realm of statistical noise and the BLS update of its population estimates may have accounted for the lower jobless rate. The bottomline is that the US labour market is not growing fast enough for comfort. But those looking for equity market ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... Australia, economic conditions have been stronger than expected, after a mild downturn a year ago." Just look at the jobless rate - now thought to have peaked (at 5.8 per cent) - which fell to 5.5 per cent in December and the boost to retail spending ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... the previous month. And no, this wasn't caused by a drop in the participation rate like the one that kept the US jobless rate unchanged at 10 per cent in December. Jobs were actually created - all 35,200 of them! This was a big surprise for the consensus ...

Jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... other big forecasters) record on forecasting jobs, maybe she's not. In May, the Federal Government predicted that the jobless rate would peak at 8.75 per cent next year. This was lowered later this year to 6.75 per cent by mid-2010 as the resilience ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... after the November jobs figures were released at 1130 AEDT. According to the seasonally adjusted data the national jobless rate fell to 5.7 per cent in November from 5.8 per cent the previous month. Full-time employment surged by a seasonally-adjusted ...

You're dreaming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... seen way worse. And by the way, 5.8 per cent is not a "seven-year high". My database shows that the last time the jobless rate was at this level was in October 2003. That's only six, isn't it? But why quibble about a few months. The point is that given ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... level when the Eurozone first came into existence following the official launch of the euro back in January 1999. The jobless rate has climbed steadily since it hit a low of 7.1 per cent back in March 2008. And with rising joblessness, comes weaker retail ...