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The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... ignored this. Nothing left but to enjoy our weekend folks... and oh, back to US data watching and not only the unemployment rate and inflation this time.

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... same way ALL Feddies - including Janet -- under Bernanke guessed that it would take a looong time before the unemployment rate even comes close to 6.5% back in December 2012 and so were game enough to put that promise on paper that they wouldn't even ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... momentum that the RBNZ raised interest rates there only yesterday. Only yesterday, too, we learned that while the unemployment rate remained at 6.0%, Australia added a total of 47,300 jobs last month and that 3,700 jobs lost in January... well, it's ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... year to the September quarter last year (the latest available) from 2.3% in the same quarter of 2012... and the unemployment rate dropping to 6.0% in the December quarter from 6.8% a year ago and down from a 13-year high of 7.2% in the third quarter ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... Department's report will show job creation picked up to 163,000 in February after a mere 113,000 in January. The unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 6.6 per cent. In local economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... before the pledge by guiding forward expectations that they won't be lifting interest rates soon (even after the unemployment rate thresholds they've set are set to be crossed soon). So has the Bank of Japan which, only last week, expanded its lending ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... you factor in inflation of 2.7%. Backwages? Oh yes sir, we knew. Job cuts announcements, company closures, the unemployment rate on an uptrend how could we miss it? It's the classic classical economists' credo known as 'Say's Law' (popularised by French ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... Besides, Cupid Janet Yellen has taken her vow that interest rates wouldn't be rising anytime soon - not even if the unemployment rate crosses the threshold (6.5%) she dutifully signed on as vice Fed chief 14 months before. This appeared to have stirred ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... blue. Yesterday we got our own disappointing indicator when our National Statistician revealed that Australia's unemployment rate rose to 6.0% in January (5.9% expected) from 5.8% in the previous month -- the highest level since 6.1% in July 2003. The ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... economic outlook would justify such an increase". You and I know what she's talking about - it's about the 6.5% unemployment rate "threshold" the Fed's Board of Governors set back in December 2012. That no longer applies. It's not a trigger. Yellen's ...