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Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... is more likely to turn 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 ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... further pension reforms, open up professions, loosen trading rules, privatise its electricity network, reform its labour market and strengthen its banks. Once that is out of the way, Mr Tsipras's government, if it is still standing, will have to produce ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... report from, er, the headlines and the spins around the headlines. What I found were confusing indications on the US labour market. Employment increased by a lower than expected 223,000 in June, down from a downwardly revised 254,000 addition in May. ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
There's a certain sense of insouciance in the financial markets despite the expected unexpected happened - Greece defaulted on its 30 June deadline to repay the a,-1.5 billion it owes the IMF - and depending on what happens on the 5th of this month ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... resilient against the background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation." Yes, Virginia, the labour market's improved with unemployment dipping to 3.4% in March from 3.5% in the previous month but retail spending dropped by a bigger-than-expected ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... April labour data marked a big improvement from March, when the US added just 85,000 jobs. At the same time the US labour market showed some signs of weakness, with wages barely growing and underemployment still elevated. The jobs data "came in at a ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... client adviser Michael Heffernan said. He said the figure was in line with February's jobless rate in a sign the labour market has steadied. "These labour force figures aren't going to do anything to make the share market worst or better," he said. "NAB's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... jobs in April, the second month in a row under 200,000, as the petroleum sector downturn continued to pinch the labour market. Fed Chair Yellen, addressing a conference on lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, characterised US stock market valuations ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
With numbers like these, who needs a rate cut? Indications of an improving labour market and strong - very strong - housing approvals are the latest domestic economic stats the men and women of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... positive indications from the jobless claims and consumer spending reports - i.e. consumers are spending because the labour market is strengthening which puts upward pressure on compensation costs. But alas! Wall Streeters still didn't like it. The S&P ...