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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... riskier investments, like the Australian dollar, following bad economic news out of the US last week. The US Labor Department on Friday reported that employers added no net workers in August and the unemployment rate was unchanged, a sign that many were ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... ability to contain more crisis, after the two countries' borrowing costs surged in recent days. Meanwhile, the US Labor Department reported that weekly claims for unemployment benefits remained at a high 400,000 last week, with business and government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... rallied early in the day after a suprisingly positive report on the US job market, but then fell back. The US Labor Department said new claims for unemployment benefits fell to 398,000 last week, their lowest level in nearly four months and the first ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... QE2. Big Benny reminded us just yesterday -- and data out while we were sleeping confirmed his prognosis. US Labor Department figures showed that jobless claims increased by 9,000 to 429,000 in the week ended 18 June - exceeding market expectations for ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... February. The four-week moving average of claims has fallen significantly below 400K to 388,500. Remember what the US Labor Department said before? That "it takes a sustained improvement below 400k to have any appreciable effect on unemployment." We ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... activity in the New York region accelerated in February to its highest level since June. That came as the US Labor Department said import prices rose more than expected in January on the back of surging oil costs. However retail sales, a key indicator ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... hiring and manufacturing in 10 of the 12 regions surveyed... and retailers expecting better holiday sales. The US Labor Department goofed. It revised US productivity to show a faster annual growth of 2.3 per cent in the third quarter instead of the 1.9 ...

Rewind and replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... ruminations. Wall Street inched up overnight, but not so convincingly. So why is this? Why? Why? The latest US Labor Department figures show that initial unemployment claims dropped by 27,000 to 451,000 in the week ended 4 September. This is stronger ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... light with figures enough to put reasonable doubt into those willing the US economy into a double dip. The US Labor Department reported that overall non-farm payrolls declined by 54,000 in August. And just to highlight the pessimism leading up to the ...

Nightmare on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... benefits last week, showing firings accelerated on signs the economy slowed." They're all talking about the US Labor Department report showing that initial jobless claims increased by 2,000 to 484,000 in the week ended 7 August from 482,000 in the previous ...