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Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... and 2.3%-2.5% (again not forecasted last June). Perhaps, it's due to the slight improvement forecast for the unemployment rate: 5.4%-5.6% (from 5.4-5.7%) in 2015; 5.1%-5.4% (from 5.1%-5.5%) in 2016; and 4.9%- 5.3% in 2017. Then again, the slight upward ...

Unbelievably beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... Force, Australia, Aug 2014" the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released yesterday, folks. Australia's unemployment rate dropped back to 6.1% in August after the suspect outsized 0.3 percentage point jump to 6.4% in July - a figure I suspected ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... trade, he said. The release of better than expected employment figures at 1130 AEST, which included a fall in the unemployment rate to 6.1 per cent, failed to have any immediate impact on the market. BHP Billiton was 22.5 cents lower at $35.575, Rio ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... Think I'm gonna go with Janet on this one. More so given the weekend's disappointing US jobs numbers - while the unemployment rate eased to 6.1% in August from 6.2% in July, employment increased by only 142K (expectations were for a 230K gain). Another ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... in the labour market. No sir. Speaking of slack, they may even be expanding in the Eurozone. While Germany's unemployment rate steadied at 6.7% in August from July, the number of Germans out of work increased by 2,000 in the month versus expectations ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Group post full year results. In Australia, the market on Thursday flat, shrugging off a 12-year high in the unemployment rate. The jobless rate rate rose to 6.4 per cent in July, a 12-year high. It had been expected to remain at six per cent. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... June but maintaining the solid 200,000-plus monthly streak since February. The market had expected 230,000. The unemployment rate rose a mere 0.1 point to 6.2 per cent, still near its lowest level since October 2008 and well down from the 7.9 per cent ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... at wages... that we probably had more of it than we thought a year ago". He's not wrong, you know. The UK's unemployment rate continues to decline and at 6.5% (May), is down to the lowest level in nearly six years. The National Institute of Economic ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... June but maintaining the solid 200,000-plus monthly streak since February. The market had expected 230,000. The unemployment rate rose a mere 0.1 point to 6.2 per cent, still near its lowest level since October 2008 and well down from the 7.9 per cent ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... 52.8 in June. This increased business activity is slowly making a dent on the region's joblessness with the unemployment rate inching down to a less than expected 11.5% in June - the lowest level since September 2012 - from 11.6% in May and the record ...

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