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Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... need in order to be willing to hire and to invest." This gives me confidence that the Fed does not only have the labour market in its sights but also house values and 401(k)s. And where are most of the funds in 401(k)s invested? According to ebri.org ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... until there is "broad-based growth in jobs and economic activity that generally signal sustained improvement in labour market conditions and declining unemployment". And on the seventh day, the game changed. In a span of exactly one week, Super Mario's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... In his speech at a central bankers summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dr Bernanke warned that stagnation in the US labour market was "a grave concern" and signalled he would be pushing for more help for the sluggish economy when the Fed's policy board ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... boom years when Lehman Bros was still with us. Unfortunately, we won't see any significant improvement in the US labour market until after the elections and Congress jumps over the fiscal cliff -- not even if Uncle Ben announces a kinder surprise in ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... economy continued to grow in the first part of 2012, at a pace somewhat stronger than had been earlier indicated" and "labour market conditions also firmed a little, notwithstanding job shedding in some industries; the rate of unemployment remains low." ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... and could disrupt market functioning. Besides, dear Uncle Ben confessed that he's having difficulty reading the US labour market and the challenge posed by the European crisis but reassured one and all that, "If we don't see continued improvement in ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... increased by a mere 69,000 last month, this report - dated as it may be - reinforces the renewed weakness in the US labour market. More so given Bloomberg's news that American companies "have started to delay recruitment and investment on fears that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... points, or 0.41 per cent, to 4,116.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks dropped more than two per cent on Friday, after poor labour market figures showing a meagre 69,000 jobs were added in May. That combined with dismal data on industry from the US, Europe ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. Suddenly those worrying about the weakening American labour market are no longer worried. All because claims printed at 367,000 instead of the 368,000 markets were predicting. There was ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... report showing that services accounted for most of the growth in private sector jobs created in April. Yes, the US labour market is slowing. Then again, maybe not. Those expecting that the actual jobs number will come in better than expected have the ...