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Refresher pause?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... at record highs, the US unemployment rate was at 4.7% and the economy was growing averaging 1.1% quarterly growth. The jobless rate stood at 7.7% as at February this year and real GDP average quarterly growth is now only less than 0.4% over the past ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... like the upside, but we've seen it flip around every day this week. "So, it's a very tough time for investors." A fall in jobless claims in the US last week sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to an all-time high for the third straight session overnight. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... 10 minutes. The Dow Jones closed 20.88 points, or 0.15 per cent, lower at 14,054.49 points on the back of mixed GDP and jobless claims data. On the local maket, among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank lifted 17 cents to $67.44, ANZ lost 13 cents at ...

Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... woke up and saw Wall Street on the up and up, punctuated by headlines such as: "Dow Average Approaches Record After GDP, Jobless Claims" (Bloomberg) "Wall Street edges higher, Dow and S&P records a hurdle" (Reuters) "Dow nears record high on latest data" ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... report that catalysed markets. The report showed employers added 157,000 jobs in January, fewer than expected, and the jobless rate inched up to 7.9 per cent. But revised data for all of 2012 heartened markets, with net job growth at an average of 181,000 ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... Taiwan expanding by more than expected - 6.8% and 3.4%, respectively - in the December quarter. And in Singapore, the jobless rate dropped to 1.8% in the same period, the lowest in five years. There too is good news out of Japan which is now busily scrambling ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... chief analyst Ric Spooner said. "Broader economic statistics released over the last 24 hours, including China's PMI and US jobless claims did nothing to disturb the consensus view of an improving, although moderate economic growth outlook." New US jobless ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... PM-elect Li Keqiang formally take up their positions this coming March. The betterer. The US labour market continues to heal. Jobless claims dropped to 330,000 in the week ended 19 January - less than expectations for 335,000 claims and the least since ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... below-expected revenues and a middling outlook on upcoming revenues. Its shares were off 11.4 per cent. On the positive side, US jobless claims came in well below expectations, an unexpectedly strong result for the second week in a row. LONDON - European ...