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Backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... revised 231K jobs created in March. Also, remember yesterday's (the figurative yesterday) consensus claim that the US economy needs to generate at least 150K jobs a month to ensure that the recovery is sustainable? Well, here's news for you my dear friends ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... month. Nothing's really changed in the economic climate between this month and last - only that this month is May. The US economy continues to strengthen. Last night's data release added evidence to this. The US Commerce Department reported that factory ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
"When I find myself in times of trouble... Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be." - The Beatles Nice song, sound advice but not, it seems, if the French can help it. The International Monetary and Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... Alcoa got the corporate quarterly results season off to a bad start and hit investors who had been betting that the US economy was picking up momentum. An IMF downgrade of its US growth forecast alongside a weakening in an investor confidence survey ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... sold down its stake from US$1.175 trillion in October 2010 to US$1.160 trillion in December. Further problems for the US economy could also come from the tenuous nature of the jobs recovery where headline unemployment currently sits at 8.8 per cent. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... lower in afternoon trading after the International Monetary Fund said that higher gas prices could slow the pace of the US economy and offset the boost from the Federal Reserve's bond-buying stimulus program. The Dow Jones industrial average added 1.06 ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... you but what's a US$7 bil difference in the grand scheme of things? Uncle Sam has already poured trillions into the US economy over the past few years. What does a government shutdown mean? According to the Washington Post, "...some military veterans ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... were heartened by better-than-expected jobs figures out of the US on Friday and by recent positive commentary on the US economy from the US Federal Reserve. At 1202 AEST, in the resources sector, copper miner Equinox Minerals had surged $1.54, or 26.97 ...

Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... direction, yippee! But for those looking for something to worry about, they could simply point to calculations that the US economy need to add 400K jobs monthly to be truly considered in recovery. True. But just imagine if the March employment report ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... strongly later in the year on reconstruction and rebuilding. Not so for its counterparts. Despite growing momentum in the US economy, the Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve ...