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Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... private payrolls advanced by 273K in April after gaining 202K in the previous month. Wait! There's more. The unemployment rate dropped - big time - to 6.3% from 6.7% in March and the U-6 unemployment rate -- or what the BLS term as a measure of "labor ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... Thursday was driven higher by financial stocks after the release of better-than-expected jobs figures showing the unemployment rate fell to 5.8 per cent in March, and the number of people with jobs rose 18,100. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... higher, boosted by a lift in US markets and better-than-expected domestic unemployment figures. Australia's unemployment rate fell to 5.8 per cent in March, and the number of people with jobs rose 18,100 in the month. Economists had expected total employment ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... "interest rate hike" blah, blah, "six months". The minutes contained no fresh news... they dropped the quant 6.5% unemployment rate threshold - because it "was becoming outdated" -- in favour of quantitative and qualitative measures - gives them more ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... of how far the economy has gone. While latest data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that the unemployment rate remaining at 7.2% in the November-January period (from 7.1%), the lead from the January claimant count unemployment indicates ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... non-farm payrolls added another 192K in March from Feb but has not bettered expectations for a 197K gain and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7% -- good the US economy's momentum still has traction but not good enough to prompt the Fed to bring ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... since April 2009" while economic sentiment surged to its highest level since July 2011.... and this, despite the unemployment rate still at a high 11.9%... and this, despite the trouble in neighbouring Ukraine and Russia. Similarly, the Eurozone's manufacturing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Department is expected to show the US economy added 195,000 jobs in March, up from 175,000 in February, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.6 per cent from 6.7 per cent. Economic data were mixed. The services sector's activity partly rebounded ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... better. Recent pronouncements by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of England (BOE) - dropping their unemployment rate thresholds, including overall slack in the economy, extending monitoring to qualitative measures and "real people behind the ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... double-checked the stats and...she's right you 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 ...