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Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... that is sapping consumer confidence and retail sales figures so low the markets became excited last week when the Census Bureau announced a July monthly increase of just 0.5%. Unemployment appearing frozen solid on 14 million - 23 times the number in ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... could use the exact sentence to explain the latest US retail sales report released overnight. According to the US Census Bureau, retail spending increased by better-than-expected 0.8 per cent in November following a 1.7 per cent increase in the previous ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... outstanding US mortgages or pays for the wages of additional hires among US firms? According to Table 1155 of the US Census Bureau's " The 2010 Statistical Abstract", US total mortgage outstanding was US$14.6 trillion at the end of 2008. This would be ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... - coming at a time when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its monetary policy decision and the Census Bureau reporting new home sales collapse to the their lowest level on record --highlights the continued uncertainty surrounding the ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... comes in as - or better than - expected, it would be due to the 'temporary' addition of workers employed by the Census Bureau. The extra boost to consumer spending that this will generate would disappear when their census-taking service is finished. ...

Marketers urged to target over-50s

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
... Federal Reserve Bulletin report, over-50s households control 70 per cent of the total net worth in the US. The US Census Bureau also issued a report citing the over-50s market as the fastest growing market segment, with its population expected to increase ...
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