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It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... Brady asked, "So, are you going to tighten by Labor Day?" And he replied, "If we see continued improvement in the labour market and we are confident it is going to be sustained, then in the next few meetings we could look to do that." For the life of ...

More flip flopping ahead for Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... testified before the Joint Economics Committee about a week and few days ago: "If we see continued improvement in the labour market and we are confident it is going to be sustained, then in the next few meetings we could look to do that." Operative words ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... Committee Kevin Brady's question: "So, are you going to tighten by Labor Day?" "If we see continued improvement in the labour market and we are confident it is going to be sustained, then in the next few meetings we could look to do that." Got that one? ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... hitting another record high, while the US dollar surged to a four-year record above 101 yen owing to positive US labour market data, analysts said, and as finance ministers from industrialised countries met in Britain. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ...

Not strong enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... problem we face in this country, which is the employment market and the labor market". I don't know about that. The US labour market might be improving too slowly for his liking...but it's improving. Only last week markets celebrated the better-than-expected ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... to 8,419. On the upside, Frankfurt's DAX 30 gained 0.51 per cent to 7,913.71 points, boosted by resilient German labour market and consumer confidence figures. The euro hit a two-week peak at $1.3186 before settling back to $1.3171, which was still a ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... to 8,419. On the upside, Frankfurt's DAX 30 gained 0.51 per cent to 7,913.71 points, boosted by resilient German labour market and consumer confidence figures. The euro hit a two-week peak at $1.3186 before settling back to $1.3171, which was still a ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... up a small 4,000 that followed a significant 42,000 plunge in the previous week -- and indicated a stabilising US labour market. Financial markets appear to be blinded by worries that they missed that other good news out of Europe - the one that still ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... slumped 2.03 per cent to 7,658.75 points, while in Paris the CAC 40 had lost 1.68 per cent to 3,663.48 points. The US labour market was far weaker than expected in March, with the economy adding only 88,000 jobs, a third of the number in February, according ...

Transition to transparency, a case study

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... they are on and what activities they are involved in. "Before the release, we were expecting a beating war in the labour market. We were expecting enquiries and complaints and it hasn't happened," Atkin said. However, Atkin confirmed that "there was ...