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Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... per cent showed no revision, disappointing market expectations for an upgrade to 2.2 per cent. Despite reports that US jobless claims rose by 10,000 heads last week to 424,000 when consensus expected a drop to 404,000 from the previous week's original ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 21.54 points (0.78 per cent) at 2,782.92. The market shrugged off dull data on new jobless claims and first-quarter GDP growth to score modest gains fairly evenly across the board, including the banking sector, after ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... where equities ended higher because investors ignored negative reports and chose instead to focus on the volatile weekly jobless claims data. US jobless claims fell by 29K to 409K last week - better than expectations for a 420K tally -- "bolstering confidence ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... particularly given the latest weaker-than-expected readings on US private employment, the ISM non-manufacturing index, jobless claims and productivity in recent days. Oh no! There won't be anyone buying commodities no more! Sell gold, sell oil, sell ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... government shutdown has been staved off. As if. Being a Thursday (Friday Australian time), there's the regular update on US jobless claims. Yeah, the one that jumps around from one week to another. This week, the numbers were worst than market expectations. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... Friday as traders welcomed a drop in US unemployment. Consumer goods firms led the Dow's rise, after news that the US jobless rate fell for the fourth straight month in March, to 8.8 per cent from 8.9 per cent in February, official data showed. It was ...

Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... per cent in the previous month. This is also better than the expected climb to 9.0 per cent and... and the fall in the jobless rate was not followed by a "but" because the participation rate was unchanged at 64.2 per cent - no one gave up looking for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... Monday and Tuesday, before a rally Wednesday. Optimism was further buoyed by a bigger than expected drop in US weekly jobless claims. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares gained 97.88 points, or 1.75 per cent, to 5,696.11. Germany's ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... more from China than it sells to it. And speaking of consumer spending, there's a "we're in trouble" moment there too. US jobless claims rose by 26,000 to 397,000 in the week ended March 5. This was much more than consensus forecasts for a 376,000 gain. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... US cents and and a low of 100.65 US cents. On Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported the nation's jobless rate remained at five per cent in February, while total employment fell by a seasonally adjusted 10,100 to 11.413 million ...