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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street after better-than-expected US jobless claims figures stoked fears of early US Federal Reserve stimulus tapering. At 0755 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... included data showing strong manufacturing activity in the eurozone and China, the lowest reading of weekly US jobless claims since January 2008 and decisions by the European Central Bank and Bank of England to maintain low interest rates. At 0756 AEST ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... from US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke that he had no preset plans to wind down stimulus. "The improved weekly jobless claims data out of the US appears to have been the catalyst for this push higher, with markets keeping a close ear on events in ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... in June, it remains at the expansion mark. But the clincher of course lies in the labour market reports - weekly jobless claims, ADP private payrolls and non-farm payrolls. All pointed to improvement. US non-farm employment grew by a stronger-than-expected ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... US$100 since September last year. The ghost of trouble present has also returned. Better-than-expected results on US jobless claims and private payrolls indicate that the Fed could really, truly taper soon. And if ex-Fed governor Laurence Meyer is correct ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... Industrial Average rose 0.77 per cent to close above 15,000 points for the first time since June 19, following a drop in jobless claims and a big increase in pending home sales. The chief of the US Federal Reserve's New York branch, William Dudley, also ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index increased 25.64 (0.76 per cent) to 3,401.86. The gains followed a drop in jobless claims and a big increase in pending home sales, fresh evidence that economic growth remains steady. Suggesting that markets had over-reacted ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... holds. Big Ben also told us to watch the data, did he not? Last night's disappointing US leading indicators and jobless claims data indicate that taper might not come soon. The rout, turmoil, carnage - call it what you like - in the financial markets ...

More flip flopping ahead for Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... coming. Wall Street up last Thursday because disappointing eco stats - second estimate of first quarter real GDP, jobless claims and pending home sales - imply Ben's printing press will continue to work overtime. The Street down the following day because ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... The equation. Disappointing US stats - Q1 real GDP growth revised lower to 2.4% from 2.5% (initial estimate) ; jobless claims increased by 10K last week; pending home sales rose by only 0.3% in April - equal the Fed's love will go on and on. However ...