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Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... There's good news and bad news in the US labour market report for July. First, the good news: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that total non-farm payrolls rose by 1.8 million in July - more than market expectations for an increase ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... S&P 500 index by 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite by 1.9% the day the music should have died when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirmed that inflation was indeed lifting. Headline CPI inflation rose by 0.5% in the month of January following ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... to improve" with the "house price expectations' index up by 1.6% in October. US JOLTS report The US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) may lag the non-farm payrolls report but the latest indications from this survey ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... "considerable". "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers" - yup. The U-6 unemployment rate or what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... significant deceleration either). Then again, this report could well be just as quickly forgotten when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the official jobs tally for June... but this, too, had been trending sideways since 2011. You, I and ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... know. "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers" - check. The U-6 unemployment rate or what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... "data" that received little attention from the press overnight - the US employment cost index (ECI). US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures released last night showed that America's employment cost index - the broadest measure of labour costs rose ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Now what's wrong this time? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 'mother-of-all-economic statistics' at the end of last week's trading and it was good. But how did Mr. Market react? He thought it was good too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... earnings and its implication for consumer spending and the economy in general. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), "In January, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents, or 0.2 percent, to ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... comes to shove. Now for the American labour market. There was something for everyone in the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Something for the bears. US non-farm payrolls fell 20,000 in January - expectations were for a 15,000 gain - following ...