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'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... we have to go back to the FOMC statement - and some small but salient tweaks the Fed made. Tweak, tweak: "The unemployment rate, though lower, remains elevated." (18 June statement) "Labor market conditions improved, with the unemployment rate declining ...

It's all about the US week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... strategist at BNP Paribas SA's corporate and investment-banking unit in London, on July 23." By the by, the unemployment rate is expected to remain at 6.1% in July. At the end of the day (or should I say, week), the balance of probabilities remains tilted ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... improved picture in Portugal, dealers say. London's FTSE 100 rallied 1.11 per cent to 6,784.67 points as Britain's unemployment rate hit 6.5 per cent in the three months to May - the lowest point since late 2008. Frankfurt's benchmark DAX 30 index won ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... financial crisis produced a sharp fall in economic growth and an increase of nearly two percentage points in the unemployment rate. Overseas, the impact was much more severe. Reinhart and Rogoff suggest that the average cost of a banking crisis is a ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... at least, the Bank Rate, are about to change soon', for the British economy continues to gain momentum. The unemployment rate has fallen to a five-year low of 6.6% in April from 6.8% in March - below what used to be the BOE's 7.0% threshold (when interest ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... In Australia, the market on Thursday ended a three-day run of losses with modest gains, despite a rise in the unemployment rate. Unemployment rose to six per cent in June - although the participation rate is up and almost 16,000 extra people found jobs. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... Bill Chatterton said local investors remained upbeat. He said improvements in the US, where another fall in the unemployment rate last week helped push the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 17,000 points for the first time, were the main drivers of ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... Department of Labor employment report, which showed the US economy added a healthy 288,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 per cent from 6.3 per cent in May. LONDON - European stocks ended the week on a muted note as traders paused ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... employment increased by larger-than-expected 288K in June (that followed an upwardly revised 224K add in May) and the unemployment rate to a better-than-expected 6.1% from 6.3% in May - suggest that Uncle Sam's country could now grow unaided. Uh-oh ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... inflation expectations remain well anchored." Recent readings from the Fed's two major policy indicators - the unemployment rate (6.3%) and inflation (headline at 2.1%, core at 2.0%) - appear to suggest that the time for higher interest rates is coming ...

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