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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... slightly higher after European stocks close mixed and the US markets made modest gains following better-than-expected jobless claims and durable goods figures. At 0714 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up five points ...

Fed decides not to decide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... slowed." Also true. Employment increased by only 114,000 in September - below the 200K necessary to significantly dent the jobless rate which remained at a high 7.8% last month - statistical fluke or not, conspiracy or otherwise. "The housing sector ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... current conditions components of the index jumped this month. Perhaps, the outsized 0.3 percentage point drop in the US jobless rate to 7.8% in September wasn't a fluke nor cooked after all? Wait there's more. Another Xmas treat came our way over the ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... quiet opening," he said. US stocks closed little changed after a solid rally sparked by surprisingly good data on weekly jobless claims fizzled out, in part due to questions over the figures. At close on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ...

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... biggest increase since May, after a revised 9,100 drop the prior month, the statistics bureau said in Sydney today. The jobless rate climbed to 5.4 percent, the highest since April 2010, from 5.1 percent as more workers sought employment. That 0.3 percentage ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... 4,505.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closed little changed after a solid rally sparked by surprisingly good data on weekly jobless claims fizzled out, in part due to questions over the figures. At the closing bell on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... there that his policies are having their desired effect. Yes we can! But... but 'twas so good, it's suspect. September's jobless rate was the lowest since January 2009 when the Big O first sat on that chair in the Oval Office at the West Wing of the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... tech-rich Nasdaq Composite lost 13.27 (0.42 per cent) to 3,136.19. The US Labor Department data for September put the official jobless rate at 7.8 per cent, down from the previous 8.1 per cent and the lowest level since January 2009, the month that President ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... to close at 13,575.36. Aluminum giant Alcoa led the 30 stocks in the Dow with a 3.3 per cent surge. "It's not just the jobless claims numbers on their own," said Brian Gendreau, market strategist at Cetera Financial Group. "They're coming on the back ...