Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 121 - 130 of 161 results for "Payrolls Report"

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... tomorrow should another negative reading eventuates - but have you heard what markets expect Friday's US non-farm payrolls report to show? Financial markets expect the US employment report to show that 510,000 jobs were created in May. That's a lot of ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... employment", which grew strongly in March. Another Committee member, Mr. Frankel, also cited last week's good March payrolls report for declaring that the recession is no more. Now this from the NBER en banc, "Although most indicators have turned up ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... it has been flushed down the gurgler like the Easter eggs that were consumed days before. Remember how the US payrolls report was spun favourably despite coming in worse than market expectations? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 132K jobs ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... markets are celebrating not only the risen Christ but also the risen share prices. And this despite the US non-farm payrolls report coming in well... short of expectations. Had the Street been opened for business on Good Friday, I'm pretty sure that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... was the largest monthly increase in three years. It was the third time in the past five months that the non-farm payrolls report has shown job creation in the world's largest economy. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.7 per cent and there was ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... fingers waiting for the final verdict. That verdict of course is that one single number contained in the US Non-farm Payrolls report that will be revealed on Good Friday. The majority expects the stats to show that some 200K jobs were created in March. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... month. The ADP report is seen as an early indicator of the Labor Department's closely watched monthly non-farm payrolls report, which is due on Friday. There can be wide variations because ADP only accounts for private-sector jobs, however. When markets ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... their calls for a double-dip, especially when the stimulus is withdrawn. A lot therefore hinges on the monthly US payrolls report and its future direction. Here, the news is good. A chart of the monthly changes in US employment shows the job numbers ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... Yes, you know what I'm referring to Virginia - the "big kahuna" of economic statistics that is the US non-farm payrolls report. Remember how we (note I use "we" when I'm mistaken and "I" to gloat about how prescient I was) said last week that, "The US ...

Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... dipping to 469K against expectations of 470K. The small 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 ...