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Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... and that it could stand more rate hikes or tapering/stopping of reinvestment or both. This despite the latest payrolls report that showed employment grew by just 98,000 in March. This is much less than market expectations for a 180K gain and is the lowest ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... expectations in March, they remained well-above the 50-line indicating expansion. More significant, the ADP private payrolls report showed businesses hired 263K workers in March on top of the 245K added in the previous month. This is the biggest increase ...

Traded goods inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
Quickening US import and export price inflation indicates that, barring a surprisingly weak US non-farm payrolls report (released later tonight), the fed funds rate would be at 0.75%-1.0% in about five days' time (15th of March). Import prices rose ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Financial markets don't track the ADP private payrolls report as closely as they do the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report but if ADP's estimate for February is any guide, the official US non-farm payrolls report (due out at the end ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... would merely be fulfilling their expectations. When the FOMC meets next month, they'll already have the non-farm payrolls report for February - consensus expectations centre around a 180K increase over the month and for the unemployment rate to remain ...

Trump makes small beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... expectations (31 from 11) and now is a good time to expand (23 from 12). However, as heralded in the recent non-farm payrolls report optimism on the jobs front waned with job openings down to 29 from 31 in November (a function of higher wages demands?). ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
It isn't called the "mother of all stats" for nothing. The US non-farm payrolls report is the most-watched, eagerly-awaited, much-speculated and heavily-dissected statistic not only in America but around the globe. But its outing last Friday produced ...

Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... gradual, but steady, improvement in the American economy and by extension, the world. While the latest US non-farm payrolls report showed that employment increased by a less than expected 161K in October, upward revisions in in August and September added ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... report The US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) may lag the non-farm payrolls report but the latest indications from this survey provide further evidence of a slowing labour market indicated in the official employment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... latest Labour Market Conditions Index (LMCI) reading confirms the slowing jobs growth indicated in the US non-farm payrolls report - employment grew by 156K in September, less than market expectations for a 175K increase and August's 167K addition and ...