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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... probably a bit cautious." On Wall Street overnight, stocks surged to a four-month high after the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed the world's biggest economy emerged from recession in June last year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
"The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009. The trough marks ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... following the 1990 and 2001 recessions and the 2007 one -- to which we're still waiting US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee to mark the end. US Real GDP Growth 1990 Recession.....................2001 Recession...........................2007 ...

Grass is greener in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... While the US remains unsure whether or not it's already out of the woods -- just ask the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee -- China's recent growth stats show it's miles and miles out of the woods. The Chinese economy ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... that Greece's problems are not yet over or China is still manipulating its currency or the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee has not yet certified that the recession is over. Heck, Bloomberg even quoted Jack Ablin ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... with this question after the New York Times carried a story about the 8 April meeting by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the official arbiter of the peaks and troughs of the US economic cycle - that concluded ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... no! Nien! Nyet! The positive tone on Wall Street even gave Robert Hall - the head of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the courage to announce that the recession is likely over. He might be correct. Nay ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... per cent in June for its third consecutive increase. Yeah...so what? So what is that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) uses the details of the index as gauges to determine the start and end of US recessions. And the details confirm the ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... Here's proof. The table below shows the recession periods in the America as dated by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the corresponding jobless rates before and after. It shows the unemployment rate continuing to rise months after ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... Tinto shares lost $2.70, or 6.32 per cent, to $40.00. In the US on Monday, the panel at the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that the economy has been in recession since December 2007. US stocks finished lower, with the Dow Jones industrial ...