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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... average for 2013. HONG KONG - Asian markets rose after a strong Wall Street rally sparked by upbeat figures on the US labour market ahead of the release of crucial jobs data. Tokyo climbed 2.17 per cent, or 307.29 points, to 14,462.41, Sydney closed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong gains on Wall Street ahead of a much-watched US labour market report and amid mixed trade and labour data. At 0901 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 37 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... ended modestly lower following mixed jobs and services sector data and as investors looked ahead to Friday's US labour market report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 5.01 points (0.03 per cent) to finish at 15,440.23. The broad-based S&P 500 ...

Aussie employment outlook 'slightly dismal': Sloan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... unemployment rate is set to pass 6% in the coming year, and could go further if the Abbott government does not address labour market regulation, according to The Australian contributing economics editor Judith Sloan. Speaking at the annual Financial ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... as much as they did? This isn't consistent with the pessimism that's currently doing the rounds in the Australian labour market. This is not consistent with the rise in the unemployment rate from 5.4% in December last year to 5.8% last month and forecasts ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... before the taper talks. Janet Yellen's declaration at her confirmation hearing that she considers the economy and the labour market still operating below potential - ergo, no rush to taper -- sent the Dow and the S&P 500 index to fresh highs. However ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... policy committee meeting suggests the US cental bank could scale back its stimulus program "in coming months" as the labour market improves. But with Wall Street's broad-based S&P 500 falling by just 0.36 per cent, Lonsec senior client adviser Michael ...

QE according to Yellen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... 2 percent and is expected to continue to do so for some time." Got that? Unemployment down but still "too high"; Labour market and economy "far short" of potential; Inflation will remain below Fed's 2.0% goal "for some time". But just in case, that's ...

Move the goalpost Mark

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... uncertainty and thawing credit conditions start to unlock pent-up demand." And with these comes improvement in the labour market. Based on the BOE's latest projections the unemployment rate would hit its threshold 12-18 months earlier than the third ...

Tapering still some way off

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
Market fears of US Federal Reserve tapering are overdone and loose policy will continue as the world outside the US cannot withstand higher interest rates, according to a leading fund manager. Western Asset co-chief investment officer Ken Leech says ...