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Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... actual jobs number will come in better than expected have the latest unemployment claims report to back them up. Initial jobless claims fell to 365,000 in the week ended 28 April - the lowest in a month - from 392,000 in the week prior and against expectations ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... closed higher as investors found positives in weaker-than-expected US headline growth data, offsetting record Spanish jobless figures that stoked concerns on the eurozone. US growth slowed sharply to 2.2 per cent in the first quarter from 3.0 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... corporate earnings reports that included a big disappointment from oil giant ExxonMobil. Strong US housing data, mediocre jobless claims figures and mixed earnings, spelt a choppy day of trade that ended with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... are still elevated and conditions remain fragile. US retail sales and the leading index rose by more than expected but jobless claims, industrial production, the Empire State and Philly Fed indexes and housing disappointed. Microsoft, General Electric ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... cent chance that Spain will end up doing so, and 13 per cent for Italy." US reports out overnight also say "it's a dive." Jobless claims in the week ended last week came in higher than expectations to 386K and worse, the previous week's figure was revised ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... report on the jobs front. Yes Virginia, the same one that sent many scampering for the exits at the beginning of this week. Jobless claims rose by a bigger-than-expected 13,000 to 380K in the week ended 7 April - the highest level since late January ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... points on the employment line before we can judge that this is the start of a weakening trend. Here, the declining trend in jobless claims suggests otherwise. Claims for unemployment insurance have been heading south for nearly a year now. Likewise ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... employment, consumer credit, retail sales, auto sales, etcetera, etcetera. And we got another one last night. While US jobless claims fell by less than what markets' expected, the 359K reading was the lowest level since April 2008. A strengthening labour ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... economic data, with investors nervous over the outlook ahead of another EU finance ministers meeting. A fall in US new jobless benefit claims to their lowest point in four years confirmed the improving trend while fourth quarter US growth was left at ...