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Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... over the past five years for Athens. Its economy has contracted by 25% since 2010 and by 30% since 2009. Its unemployment rate is at 25.6% with 50% of its young ones jobless. As they say, you can't flog a dead horse... but you can still flog the rest ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases jobs figures for May, which is expected to show the unemployment rate holding steady at 6.2 per cent. In Australia, the market on Wednesday ended a six-day losing streak, buoyed by resources and ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... thud with the Budget Papers dropping nominal GDP growth in the economy to 3.25%. It's the same thing with the unemployment rate - predicted to be 5.0% for 2015/16 in the out years and now expected to be 6.5% by June 2016 (unchanged from the MYEFO but ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... report - it was a "goldilocks" one, not too hot, not too cold. Employment increased by 223K in April and the unemployment rate dipped to 5.4% from 5.5% in March. Good but not enough to sway the Fed to lift-off in June. This is because the April bounce ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... one per cent on Friday after new data showed that the US economy added a solid 223,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.4 per cent. Locally on Monday, the National Austraia Bank releases its monthly business survery ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... absorbing news that the official jobless rate has risen to 6.2 per cent in April from 6.1 per cent in March. The unemployment rate is unlikely to make much of difference to an already weak session, Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... the Australian central bank's April meeting, nothing much has changed. Au contraire, some have even improved - unemployment rate, retail spending, business confidence and business conditions, among others. These are guideposts that argue that if the ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... anxious when governments come up with some bright ideas to get the show going." Miller predicts Australia's unemployment rate will reach 7% by December and the RBA will cut interest rates by 50 basis points. BlackRock says economic growth and monetary ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... more than a year now had the BOE stuck to its stated guidance to start "normalising" interest rates when the unemployment rate reaches the 7.0% threshold. That threshold was breached way back in January 2014 when the UK's jobless rate dropped to 6.9% ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... spending (but pretty please, not on more investment housing). Full-time jobs increased by 41,900 in Feb. The unemployment rate also flashed good news, falling to 6.1% in March from 6.2% in February and 6.3% in January. The decline in the jobless rate ...