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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... ongoing uncertainty about the financial system. The market is also extremely anxious ahead of Friday's February Labor Department report that is likely to show the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. Better-than-expected retail sales and factory orders ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... formally acknowledged by President-elect Obama and as indicated by the weekend's depressing payrolls report. The US Labor Department reported that the economy lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008 - the biggest one-year decline in employment since 1945. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... weakening. However, as the week progressed, the market appeared to be taking the bad news in stride - even Friday's Labor Department report that showed the nation lost more than a half a million jobs last month. The report raised hopes that the government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... economy. The Dow Jones industrial average traded in a 568-point range as investors' shock dissipated over the Labor Department's report that employers slashed 533,000 jobs in November compared with the 320,00 that economists forecast. The market's advance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... points, betting that the market has priced in enough bad news. The initial selloff began early in the day after the Labor Department reported that the number of newly laid-off individuals seeking unemployment benefits jumped last week to a level not ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... to bargain hunting in sectors including financials and consumer staples. Wall Street initially fell after the Labor Department reported that payrolls shrank more than predicted last month, and that the unemployment rate reached a five-year high. The ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... slowdown led to a broad-based sell-off in equities. Concerns over the global economy re-emerged after the US Labor Department's report of a worse-than-expected initial jobless claims led to speculation that tomorrow's US payrolls report could be weaker-than-expected. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... investors took advantage of bargains in financial stocks after two days of decline. Stocks initially fell after the Labor Department reported another hefty jump in consumer prices. But after early disappointment with the CPI, investors began looking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... grew at a 1.9 per cent pace in the second quarter disappointed investors. Investors were also concerned about Labor Department data saying that the number of people seeking jobless benefits jumped to the highest level in five years. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... seeing jobs disappear by the thousands in recent months, the stock market is eager for any insights into the Labor Department's take on the job market on Friday. The Federal Reserve also announced it will extend its emergency borrowing program for Wall ...