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Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... cent in the same month. Financial markets would again be holding their collective breath ahead of Friday's US employment report. Here, expectations are not good. The drop-off in census workers is expected to reduce the headline non-farm payrolls number ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months." The only positive thing that could be said about the May US employment report is that it marked the fifth month in six that jobs were added to the economy. So where do we go from here? Do we just play ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... you heard what markets expect Friday's US non-farm payrolls report to show? Financial markets expect the US employment report to show that 510,000 jobs were created in May. That's a lot of jobs for a single month - in fact, if the actual number comes ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... dictates of the Lenten season. For some are now flogging themselves with the thought that even if Good Friday's US employment report comes in as - or better than - expected, it would be due to the 'temporary' addition of workers employed by the Census ...

Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... went on a shooting spree, killed one person and left five wounded in his former office the same day as the US employment report went to press. But while most Americans would not go to the lengths Rodriguez went - I wonder how many of the 15.7 Americans ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed higher in choppy trade on Friday, with investors tested by a mixed US employment report after encouraging words from the heads of the IMF and European Central Bank. The gains were welcome after a four-day losing ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... decline since last October and much, much better than market expectations for a 645,000 reduction. The official US employment report will be released on Friday (US time). Markets expect the report to show non-farm jobs shrank by another 603,000 in April. ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... Poor's revised its outlook on its long-term credit rating to negative from stable. Subject to spin. Tomorrow's US employment report may again rattle investors' nerves. The betting is that another 540,000 Americans received pink slips in January. Certainly ...

Global recession coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... September 2001. Likewise, continuing claims, at 3.5 million, are now the highest since October 2003. The official US employment report will be released on 3 October and, given these statistics, the numbers would not be good. US capital investment is ...

More Fed pump-priming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... overnight performance is anything to go by. Wall Street closed higher overnight as an unexpectedly strong US employment report and an announcement by the US Federal Reserve of new liquidity provisions offset a rebound in the price of crude oil. ADP/Macroeconomic ...