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Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... know. "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers" - check. The U-6 unemployment rate or what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time ...

Excuses, excuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... Wall Street. Perhaps it was a not an often day for Wall Street. The S&P jumped by 1.3% the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that only 113,000 jobs were created in January, disappointing expectations for an 180,000 increase. This followed ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... candlestick maker are all sitting tight is because it's coming... very soon... this Friday. Yes Virginia, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is set to release the mother of all eco stats - the US Private Non-farm Payrolls Report - this coming Friday. ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... "data" that received little attention from the press overnight - the US employment cost index (ECI). US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures released last night showed that America's employment cost index - the broadest measure of labour costs rose ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... news. Besides, it would be revised a second and third time anyway. And if goes the same way as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did to 2012's non-farm payrolls, chances are the revisions would be on the up and up. While January's job gain of 157K ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Now what's wrong this time? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 'mother-of-all-economic statistics' at the end of last week's trading and it was good. But how did Mr. Market react? He thought it was good too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... September - statistically at par with market expectations for a 115,000 gain in the month. Better, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised its estimate of employment for July (up an extra 40,000) and August (up 46,000) higher for a net increase of 86,000. ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... earnings and its implication for consumer spending and the economy in general. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), "In January, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents, or 0.2 percent, to ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... 157,000). Need I mention that regardless of the downward revision in June, it remains way above the Bureau of Labor Statistics' official count of only 57,000 private sector jobs during that month? Challenger, Gray & Christmas' report that lay-off announcements ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... Japan and Australia. Sorry bro' no can do this too. It wouldn't wash because the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics left no room for spins when he stated, "We found no clear impact of the disasters on the national employment and unemployment ...