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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... payrolls The soft lead from the ADP private payrolls would have economists trimming their forecasts for the official US employment report for September due out Friday night (consensus expectations are for a 170K increase). The ADP private payrolls survey ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... of the Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) - a summary of 19 labour market indicators - confirmed the rebound in US employment in June but unlike the strong non-farm payrolls report, it still indicates that the labour market hasn't recovered its strength ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
A big bounce in US employment gave the green light to investors and speculators to put risk back on onto their portfolios. Fear, it seems, has left the building... or driven out by the strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
US jobless claims It may be that the very disappointing 38K increase in US employment in May was just noise, an aberration. This is the indication given by the latest data on jobless claims. Initial jobless claims decreased to 264,000 in the week ended ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... authorities' public statements on the desired direction of the exchange rate" back in March this year. May's disappointing US employment numbers may have just given Uncle Sam another bullet to hit the RBA - or Donald Trump? - with... maybe. Whether our ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... difficult to achieve in the near term." US Labor Market Conditions Index As if confirming the latest disappointing US employment numbers - up by 160K in April versus expectations for a 200K addition - the broader US Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... 2015) could "wash out" the downward pressure to inflation. To be sure, while wage growth remains slow, the strong US employment report for December -- payrolls jumping by 292,000 in December following a 252,000 increase in the previous month. This is ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... August and 5.2% unemployment rate (from 5.3% in July) could ramp up the odds for a September lift. Then again, the US employment alone is pregnant with other "data" that the Fed is watching and advices us to watch - revisions to previous month's numbers ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... September. There's something for the bulls and the bears and the birds and the bees and the moon up above in the July US employment update to confirm their respective cognitive biases. The latest numbers are unlikely to change your thinking. The US economy ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... It's been hours! Stop hogging the BLS website people. Never mind, I could get bits and pieces of the details of the US employment report from, er, the headlines and the spins around the headlines. What I found were confusing indications on the US labour ...