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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... services sector's activity partly rebounded from a steep February fall, the US trade deficit widened more than expected and weekly initial unemployment claims rose. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets got a boost as the ECB pledged to further ease monetary ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... rate pre-GFC and even higher than the 10.3% top hit after America's recession in 2001. "Stagnant wages" - check. Average weekly earnings in the private sector came in at 1.3% in the year to February from 2.1% in the same month last year, 2.5% in 2012 ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... weather-distorted) of the state of the labour market and speculations are it would be show improvement given the positive lead from weekly jobless claims.

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... this one. This becomes especially true when you consider recent macro releases. Better-than-expected US retail sales and weekly jobless claims; improved German trade with both exports and imports growing at their fastest pace in nearly two years in January ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... "the fastest overall improvement in U.S. manufacturing business conditions since May 2010." To be sure, other indicators - weekly jobless claims, leading index - also suggested that the going is going good for the US. But what about the disappointing ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... the week ended the Valentine's Day: Love is in the air... everywhere you look around. "China Stocks Rise, Capping Biggest Weekly Gain Since September." "European Stocks Post Biggest Weekly Gain of 2014 on Fed." "Emerging Stocks Extend Best Week Since ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
It's the weather, stupid! This was how Wall Street interpreted last disappointing data on retail spending and weekly jobless claims. 'Twas a convenient excuse (rationale?), particularly last night when a skyful of snow dropped on the East Coast about ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... polar vortex and BLS revisions to the data and the many moving parts - employment, unemployment rate, participation rate, weekly hours worked, etc - in the report, it would help to keep our fingers crossed.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... futures contract was up 37 points at 5,119. The US trade deficit rose a more-than-expected 12 per cent in December, but weekly new claims for unemployment insurance fell to 331,000 from 351,000 the previous week. The improvement in claims, a sign of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
... Washington reporting that the world's biggest economy grew a stronger-than-expected 2.8 per cent in the third quarter while weekly jobless claims fell slightly. At close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 0.66 per cent to 6,697.22 points, while ...