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Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... sales reports showed shoppers remain skittish about spending as hiring remains scarce". It referred to the US Labor Department's report that showed a initial jobless claims rose by 19,000 to 479,000 in the week end 30 July. Financial markets expected ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... expectations - worse, iffy they surprise on the down side. This has been the Street's monthly routine. The US Labor Department will release the US employment stats for March on Good Friday (their time) - and let's all hope it's good. US payrolls dropped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... since January 20, while the Nasdaq ended at its highest level since early September 2008. Figures from the US Labor Department showed the world's largest economy lost 36,000 jobs in February, with the unemployment rate steady at 9.7 per cent despite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... could hurt the country's efforts to tackle its debt crisis. Closer to home, the market shuddered after the US Labor Department said new claims for US jobless benefits jumped to a three-month high, underscoring ongoing struggles for the labor market and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... remain near zero for the time being. But that sentiment vanished later in the European trading day after the US Labor Department reported a smaller than expected fall in weekly jobless insurance claims and orders for US manufactured goods rose by less ...

The I word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... Street into losing more than half a per cent last night. Inflation cast its shadow on the Street after the US Labor Department released figures showing that the country's headline producer price index jumped by 1.8 per cent in November, with the core ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... all of October. And all because the US economy's MVP (most valuable player) is showing signs of fatigue. The US Labor Department reported that personal spending dropped by 0.5 per cent after a 1.3 per cent increase in the previous month. While this is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... Chan said. "The market has already run hard, but you can't stop the momentum at the moment." On Friday, the US Labor Department said the country's unemployment rate unexpectedly had dipped to 9.4 per cent, its first decline in 15 months. That sent US ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... formally acknowledged by President-elect Obama and as indicated by the weekend's depressing payrolls report. The US Labor Department reported that the economy lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008 - the biggest one-year decline in employment since 1945. The ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... slowdown led to a broad-based sell-off in equities. Concerns over the global economy re-emerged after the US Labor Department's report of a worse-than-expected initial jobless claims led to speculation that tomorrow's US payrolls report could be weaker-than-expected. ...