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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... said the United States added 162,000 jobs in July, well below the 175,000 expected on average by analysts. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4 per cent from 7.6 per cent in June. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets mostly shrugged off disappointing US ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... statement were released at noon, showing a $33 billion hit to revenues amid worsening economic conditions. The unemployment rate forecast has been revised up from 5.75 per cent to 6.25 per cent and economic growth revised down to 2.5 per cent. The full ...

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... tapering may end early 2014, but Fletcher said that the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes are tied to the unemployment rate falling toward 6.5%, which is not expected until 2015 Nevertheless, he says that investors need to be reviewing their asset ...

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... reports last night show German business confidence improved for a third month in July and get this...Spain's unemployment rate declined to 26.3% in Q2 - the first drop in two years - from 27.2%. Green shoots? Plus, China's started to stimulate and Japan ...

Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... than gains in employment, the committee would be unlikely to view a decline in unemployment to 6.5 percent (unemployment rate) as a sufficient reason to raise its target for the federal funds rate. And with regards to inflation: "...the committee would ...

A prince, a princess or a frog?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... is accommodation...a highly accommodative policy is needed for the foreseeable future" because the current US unemployment rate "if anything, overstates the health of the labour market" and inflation remains low". Or will he risk the headlines putting ...

Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... telling us that "We've got a perfect storm at the moment," and its chief economist Alan Oster predicting the unemployment rate to rise above 6% by the end of the year. And sure enough, Mr. Oster is looking right on the money. The Australian Bureau of ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... is accommodation...a highly accommodative policy is needed for the foreseeable future" because the current US unemployment rate "if anything, overstates the health of the labour market" and inflation remains low. With these words, Money Messiah Ben not ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... the domestic jobs market. The Age even has a nifty chart that shows the correlation between job ads and the unemployment rate on their website ( http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/job-ads-slide-for-fourth-straight-month-20130708-2pla9.html ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... in June. Better, upward revisions to April and May's tally added another 70,000 to the total jobs tally. The unemployment rate steadied at 7.6% due largely to an increase in the participation rate (yup, more workers are encouraged to look for jobs). ...