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Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... there's a first time for everything. This might just be ECRI's virgin moment. Somethin' good is suggested by the last US payrolls report that showed increased by 103,000 in September - better than expectations for a 60,000 gain - with 137,000 heads added ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Yen and Swiss Franc," he said. Mr Waterer said the Australian dollar could hit 108 US cents by the weekend, if the US payrolls result fuelled risk sentiment. The Australian dollar was likely to trade in a range of 106.75 to 107.65 on Friday, he added. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... sharply on Friday, with copper extending gains into a fourth week to a fresh 26-month peak, after a surprise fall in US payrolls strengthened talk of fresh stimulus measures to boost the world's biggest economy. Mr Herring said banks were providing support ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... sector jobs, would have sent alarm bells ringing -- particularly with the widely-watched, all-important, official US payrolls stats just a day away. Financial markets expect that America lost a further 100,000 jobs in August and the for the unemployment ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... brave enough to even think of buying a car in the face of a deteriorating labour market. It may be a bad month for US payrolls but the future is not all that bleak. Here, increases in the index of aggregate weekly hours and average overtime hours are ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... debt crisis across the Atlantic. Bring it on Europe! The guess. According to Bloomberg, consensus predicts that the US payrolls report would show that some 536,000 workers have found jobs in May. If accurate, this would be the biggest one-month hiring ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... appears that it has been flushed down the gurgler like the Easter eggs that were consumed days before. Remember how the US payrolls report was spun favourably despite coming in worse than market expectations? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... Department will release the US employment stats for March on Good Friday (their time) - and let's all hope it's good. US payrolls dropped by 36,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 per cent in February. But the report did nothing much for ...

Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... claims dipping to 469K against expectations of 470K. The small dip in claims strengthened market conviction that the US payrolls report would show a 0.1 per cent increase in the jobless rate to 9.8 per cent in February with jobs shrinking by 50,000 jobs. ...

Debt load

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... rampant that the US Federal Reserve is about to raise interest rates soon because of the heaps better-than-expected US payrolls report for November. The Fed was quick to deny - interest rates will remain low for as long as necessary - and the White House ...