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The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... nothing else you and I and Irene could do but sit and wait. And by George, thank goodness that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) decided to publish the US Non-farm payrolls report a day early so our yankee doodle brethren can celebrate their Independence ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... baby nooo". This, at least, was the message conveyed by Wall Street's performance on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the jobs numbers. They all fell down - US equities, that is. The S&P 500, down 1.4%; the Dow, down 1.5%; the Nasdaq ...

Are we there now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Yo momma! We're there now. The US Bureau of Labor Statictics' (BLS) latest update on America's employment situation - the momma of all eco stats - indicates that the economy is no longer mending, but that... it has mended. I refer not only to the much ...

Bennelong expands Long Short Equity team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
Bennelong Long Short Equity Management (BLSEM) has appointed a senior investment analyst, starting in early August. Steven Lambeth joins from JCP Investment Partners, where he was senior investment analyst and responsible for company research and valuation ...

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
... 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 Irene need ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... There's more. The unemployment rate dropped - big time - to 6.3% from 6.7% in March and the U-6 unemployment rate -- or what the BLS term as a measure of "labor underutilization - declined to 12.3% in April from 12.7%. But... but this outsized drop in ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... "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 for economic ...

Excuses, excuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... Street. Perhaps it was a not an often day for Wall Street. The S&P jumped by 1.3% the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that only 113,000 jobs were created in January, disappointing expectations for an 180,000 increase. This followed ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... sector employment survey and the jobless claims report are positive. But then, given the distortions by the polar vortex and BLS revisions to the data and the many moving parts - employment, unemployment rate, participation rate, weekly hours worked ...