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All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... when jobs grew slower (save for four months when it grew between 2.0% and 2.2%). It's currently at 2.1%. The unemployment rate - steady at 5.3% -- and the participation rate - steady at 62.6% -- in July offered little guidance. But the other unemployment ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... mid-2012 to early 2014. The lowest annual growth in the ECI was 1.5% recorded back in December 2009 when America's unemployment rate was around 10%. This is easily explained. Still employed workers don't dare ask nor even think about a pay increase. ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... said investors should expect lower returns in the years ahead, they saw no reason to run for the exit. "The unemployment rate is better than people expected. The RBA has still got some ammunition and that's why it has been reluctant to cut any further," ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... Policy" will provide a clue on the Fed's thinking about particularly, the mismatch between the declining US unemployment rate and still tame inflation - its major mandates - and its monetary response.

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... New York on Wednesday, as Germany's jobless scrolls showed a surprise increase of 9,000 people in July. The unemployment rate stayed at 6.4 per cent in July, however, the lowest level since reunification almost a quarter century ago. HONG KONG - Asian ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... had been growing below this rate since March 2013 (save for the 3.5% bump in the first quarter of 2014), the unemployment rate has remained stable at around 6.0% -- down from 6.3% at the start of the year. Gov Glenn's ruminations are also supported by ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... US non-farm payrolls report - you know the one, the one where employment grew by less than expected and the unemployment rate dropped by more than expected. This is jobs growth in America has not yet approached terminal velocity.A Oh yes, Virginia, we ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman known as "Permanent Income Hypothesis". Similarly, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.0% from a downwardly revised 5.9% in the previous month, it was pulled up by the increase in the participation ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... even prettier. This is because the same slow growth in prices -- along with an improving labour market (5.5% unemployment rate in April) and rising wages - up by a greater than expected 0.9% in the month of April and 2.7% over the year - are boosting ...

Australian market strong after miners' gains

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... almost six per cent higher. Meanwhile, the latest jobs figures revealed a better than expected 6.0 per cent unemployment rate in June. At 1015 AEST, BHP Billiton was up 35.5 cents, or 1.37 per cent, at $26.235, while Rio Tinto gained 71 cents, or 1.4 ...

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