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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) lunch in Hobart while speakers at the Australian Business Economists forum in Sydney include Westpac chief economist Bill Evans, JP Morgan Fixed Income Strategist Sally Auld, RBC senior economist ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... Figures out on Friday showed a better than expected 0.3 per cent drop in the US unemployment rate to 7.8 per cent, when economists had been tipping a 8.2 per cent rate. But the figures were greeted with mixed feelings on the market and negatively on ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... those 24 consecutive months of jobs growth, an average of only 151,000 jobs were created per month - below the 200K economists estimate would bring the unemployment rate lower. Digging deeper into the payrolls report shows that, on balance, it was good ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Americans sought unemployment benefits for the first time last week, an increase from the previous week but fewer than economists had forecast. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 80.75 points to close at 13,575.36. Aluminum giant Alcoa led the 30 ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... "The Federal Reserve is likely to announce a third round of bond purchases tomorrow, according to almost two-thirds of economists in a Bloomberg survey, while also extending the duration of its zero-interest-rate policy into 2015." In a few hours all ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets rose and the dollar sank against the euro ahead of a US Federal Reserve meeting most economists expect will deliver fresh stimulus to kick-start the economy. Comments from China's prime minister hinting at monetary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... today, as investors anxiously await tomorrow's European Central Bank meeting," Charles Schwab & Co analysts said. "Economists are expecting the ECB to cut rates, but will also be focused on whether a plan will develop to re-enter the sovereign debt markets ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... to the next. The less volatile measure, the four-week moving average of claims, has fallen to 368K -- below the 400K economists' estimate would bring the unemployment rate down - from 405K last year. So all good? Errr... perhaps, if the US economy is ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... cancelled or delayed. But with China re-starting its growth engine, this looks unlikely. Now how could some of our economists still justify their calls for the unemployment rate to rise to 5.5% by year end and this will prompt the RBA to cut rates again? ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... Financial markets expected a plus 100K print in employment. But the actuals would need to beat expectations by 100% -- most economists agree 200K monthly growth is needed - to dent the unemployment rate. Now is the time for the ECB too, not even after ...