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KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
Now that Greece has again been relegated to a mere afterthought, the latest PMI update from Markit Economics reminded all and sundry that, Greece bailed out or not, a recession is still waiting in the wings in Europe. The Markit Economics preliminary ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... Have a look: Philly Fed Business Outlook: Business activity +10.2 in Feb from +7.3 in January. Plus 9.5 expected. Initial Jobless Claims: -13K to 348K in week ended 11 Feb. Plus 10K expected. Housing Starts: +1.5% to 699K in Jan versus expectations of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... points, or 1.62 per cent, to 4,257.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks surged higher Thursday helped by buoyant data on new jobless claims and housing starts, with the Dow reaching its highest level since May 2008. Positive signs for the US economy poured ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... from 8.5% in the previous month. - This is the lowest in three years and the fifth consecutive month of decline in the jobless rate. There were cheers all around. The DJ Euro Stoxx-50 index closed 1.5% higher and the FTSE-100 jumped by 1.8%, ignoring ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... jumped by 297K in December - that's almost triple consensus projections for a 100K increase. Why wait when last night's jobless claims showed applications for unemployment insurance dropped to a bigger-than-expected 367K in the week ended 28 January. ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Australia's unemployment will reach 6%! Boy, oh, boy, then the America must really be in the mud - the Fed expects the jobless rate to drop to only 6.7% by 2014 (and that's the optimistic end of its forecast). "The manufacturing, retail, construction ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... increased in December, lifted by solid business spending on machinery and equipment. Separate data showed a rise in weekly jobless claims, although the four-week average is still trending down. Combined with the Fed's comments, the indicators pushed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... after Bank of America and Morgan Stanley's results both topped analysts' forecasts and reinforced positive data showing jobless claims fell to their lowest level since 2008. "In the US reporting season so far, 65 per cent of results have exceeded expectations," ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... every bit of good news serves to provide a positive shock to the system. And there were also plenty of them last night. US jobless claims plunged by 50,000 to a less-than-expected 352,000 (only a tad higher than the level of claims recorded before the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... losing streak, as positive data from the US spurred hopes that the world economy may have some life yet. The number of US jobless claims fell to the lowest level in three years, data released overnight showed, in the latest indication that the world's ...