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Are we there now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... a 35-year low - improving labour market conditions should encourage more Americans to start looking. The latest US jobs report may well be the start of a stronger virtuous cycle of greater job creation, higher consumer spending, stronger sales and profits ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... stocks have finished little changed, rallying somewhat from a big mid-session drop as investors looked ahead to the US jobs report for September. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 3.66 points (0.02 per cent) to 16,801.05 on Thursday. The broad-based ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... points, or 1.34 per cent, at 5,547.6 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished lower despite a solid US jobs report and generally good corporate earnings as investors took a cautious stance after Thursday's rout. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... points, or 1.34 per cent, at 5,547.6 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished lower despite a solid US jobs report and generally good corporate earnings as investors took a cautious stance after Thursday's rout. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... downwards. He said investors were looking ahead to Thursday's European Central Bank meeting and Friday's monthly US jobs report as possible catalysts for a change in direction. At 1202 AEST, in the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was off ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... previous day's records as investors looked ahead to Thursday's European Central Bank meeting and Friday's monthly US jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 21.29 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 16,722.34, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.73 points ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... lead from Wall Street's last session. Friday's big drop in high-growth companies in the US overshadowed a solid US jobs report, Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said. "It was momentum stocks (mostly from the tech and biotech sectors) that have ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... to open flat with Wall Street little changed as investors digest a series of economic data ahead of Friday's big US jobs report for March. At 0805 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,404. US Commerce Department ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... means for the on-going Fed reduction in asset purchases is that... it'll keep on going. This is because the latest US jobs report contained no new information that portends a "significant change" in the economic outlook. You know, the one Chair Yellen ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street finished mixed as a better-than-expected US jobs report helped offset anxiety over Ukraine that sent European equities lower. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures ...