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Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
If there is one proof that no one can fight against nature, it is the Americans and shopping. Yes Virginia, they continue to shop in stores and and even online! And they're not only window-shopping... they are actually exchanging money for goods and ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
It's Veterans Day holiday in the United States - a day celebrating the signing of the Armistice that brought World War I to its formal end. And as the world celebrated the end of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... rate went up and up 19 months after the end of recession. The problem we have now is that we're still waiting for the US Bureau of Economic Research to declare the end of the current recession. But if most guesses are right and it ended in June 2009 ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
It was another ho-hum moment on Wall Street overnight. The Dow went down less than 1 per cent, then up less than 1 per cent, then closed 0.1 per cent higher. The same goes for the S&P 500 index... well, almost. It went down less than 1 per cent, up ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
It's times like these that those who want to spook the market have their moment. A time when investors are anxiously gnawing on their fingers waiting for the final verdict. That verdict of course is that one single number contained in the US Non-farm ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... public sector if push comes to shove. Now for the American labour market. There was something for everyone in the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Something for the bears. US non-farm payrolls fell 20,000 in January - expectations were for ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... wealth to bail-out the former fat cats of Wall Street, they will be lucky to afford half a can of soup. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics non-farm payrolls plummeted by 533,000 in November - the biggest one-month fall in 34 years. This brings ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... Financial markets practically ignored this statement, choosing instead to get their dose of daily fright by focusing on the US Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) announcement officially marking the start of the US recession. In his speech, Bernanke ...

Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... high of 497,000 in the week ended 27 September - the highest since the September 11 terrorists attacks in 2001. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics explains that the estimate has been elevated by around 45,000 due to Hurricanes Ike and Gustav. But even ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... Australia is now ranked 54th in population on a global basis and this is expected to slip to 67th by 2050 according to the US Bureau of Census' International Data Base of 227 nations. By 2050, India is anticipated to have outgrown China with a population ...