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Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... from the get go yesterday. Yup, I expected as much given the good news on or before "Mother's Day" - goldilocks US employment report, clam in the bond markets, China's rate cut, among others -- that sent American and European equity markets jumping at ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... latest US jobs figures - delivered after they've concluded their tete-a-tete - might give them pause for a re-think. US employment disappointed expectations, increasing by just 126,000 in March against expectations for a 247,000 addition and the lowest ...

Funds urge government to reject lift of super threshold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
Superannuation funds are calling for the government to reject a proposal from the Board of Taxation to lift the superannuation payment threshold for low income and casual workers to $1,350 a quarter. The measure would mean that employees who earn less ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... when we thought financial markets would be jingling all the way into the New Year - helped by the unarguably strong US employment report for November - we're now seeing dead people (apologies for mixing my movie themes). Wall Street's down, Europe's ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... tidings. Mother, of course, is the US non-farm payrolls report - considered "the mother of all economic statistics". US employment increased by 248K last month following a 180K pick up in August and a 243K gain in July. This was more than expectations ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... stimulus plans. But US stocks finished flat as investors weighed the ECB news against upbeat expectations for September US employment figures due to me released tonight. CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said the local market was off to a slightly ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... be being brought forward. Whether this change in expectations continues to be the new normal depends on what the US employment report reveals when it's released at the end of this week.

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... looked good, but data also showed that wages did not increase, which showed there was still plenty of slack in the US employment market. The US Labor Department said on Friday that nonfarm payrolls surged 288,000 last month, the largest gain since January ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... (Reuters); "U.S. Stocks Retreat as Ukraine Tensions Overshadow Jobs" (Bloomberg). Well sort of. This is because the US employment report remains ambivalent at best. It was good. US companies added a bigger-than-expected 288,000 to their payrolls in March ...

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... the research said. The investigation focused on employment in the United States and concluded that 47% of total US employment is at risk. Those at lower risk of being computerised are occupations that require a high level of creativity such as art directors ...