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Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... for a December lift-off. This one's an important one. Nay, "monumental". Just ask Bloomberg. "To say the October payrolls report will be closely watched across the world would be an understatement. It'll be monumental." Expectations for a December lift-off ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... index (including food and energy) but this measure is up a mere 0.3% in the 12 months to August. The US non-farm payrolls report that followed suggests that price pressures will remain contained for a while yet. Full employment. The economy added only ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... 1.2% in the year to July from 1.3% in the previous month. Friday night brings that equally important Non-farm payrolls report. Markets expect employment to grow by 203,000 in August and the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 5.1%. But as has been ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... confident that inflation will move back to its 2 percent objective over the medium term." The latest US non-farm payrolls report says go - they've met that "further improvement in the labor market" condition -- with the unemployment rate dropping to ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... the financial markets" and "incoming data". But woe is us, for the last important data we got - the US non-farm payrolls report for August - threw a bone to every dog of every persuasion which means, it provided nada, zilch, zippo. However, subsequent ...

Labour market says go, inflation says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Yes, no, maybe I don't know. That's the answer we got from the very latest US non-farm payrolls report on the question of a September lift-off. There was something for everyone. Those expecting the Fed to pull the lift-off trigger at their 16-17 September ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... fund futures betting for a lift off remains a coin toss - 40% for September and 50% in December. The US non-farm payrolls report - due out Friday (New York day) - could provide greater clarity. Actuals that are better than the 223,000 additional jobs ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
If you think that the latest US non-farm payrolls report is good enough for the Fed to proceed with a September lift-off, you are correct. You are not wrong too if you think it's not strong enough for the Fed to pull the trigger in September. There's ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... a September lift-off - and they think September lift-off here we come. Never mind the disappointing AP private payrolls report - up 185K in July vs. expectations for up 210K - and a bigger than expected trade deficit - US$43.8 billion in June vs. expectations ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... expected to jump by 0.6%. These, methinks, solve the confusing message from the latest instalment of the US non-farm payrolls report - you know the one, the one where employment grew by less than expected and the unemployment rate dropped by more than ...