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AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... with 7,165 contracts traded. Figures out on Friday showed a better than expected 0.3 per cent drop in the US unemployment rate to 7.8 per cent, when economists had been tipping a 8.2 per cent rate. But the figures were greeted with mixed feelings on ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... that you could almost picture the Big O grinning from ear to ear perhaps even dancing the gangnam style. The unemployment rate dropped - big time - to 7.8% in September from 8.1% in the previous month. He's earned bragging rights right there that his ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... September data. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have leaped higher, boosted by a surprise drop in the US unemployment rate and on the back of upbeat comments from European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi. At the close on Friday, London's FTSE 100 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... comes Friday morning when the Labour Department releases its monthly jobs report. Economists forecast that the unemployment rate inched up to 8.2 per cent in September from 8.1 per cent in August. LONDON - Major European stock markets have hit a soft ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... to you Prime Minister Rajoy or it'll be goodbye. Just ask Bloomberg. Its headline says it all, "Euro-Region Unemployment Rate Rises to Record 11.4%" in August. Nah, this is plain wrong. Revisions show that the jobless stats were already at this level ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... activity has continued to expand at a moderate pace in recent months. Growth in employment has been slow, and the unemployment rate remains elevated. Household spending has continued to advance, but growth in business fixed investment appears to have ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... possible that the committee would adopt Chicago Fed President Evans' proposal to signal no rate hikes until the unemployment rate has fallen to a specific level (in Evans' version 7%) unless underlying inflation rises above a specific threshold (in Evans' ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... non-farm payrolls report. Employment increased by 96,000 last month against expectations for a 125K gain. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% from 8.3%, this was a function of the drop in the participation rate from 63.7% to 63.5% in August as ...

So where's the QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... sheet tools and communication tools -- since 2007 and their positive effect on the economy. "As of July, the unemployment rate had fallen to 8.3 percent from its cyclical peak of 10 percent and payrolls had risen by 4 million jobs from their low point. ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... four-week moving average of claims, has fallen to 368K -- below the 400K economists' estimate would bring the unemployment rate down - from 405K last year. So all good? Errr... perhaps, if the US economy is operating in a vacuum. But it ain't. The HSBC ...

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