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The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... and doom since. Sure the improvement in America's economy had been slow, but it's improving nonetheless. The unemployment rate has come down to 8.3% in July from 10% in October 2009. The annual growth in retail spending has averaged 5.4% in the first ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... troughed." "Material surprise" my backside. Doesn't he look at other stats? Say, the unemployment stats? Australia's unemployment rate printed at 5.2% in July and it had been at or below 5.5% (my guess of the NAIRU - non-accelerating inflation rate of ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... for another Ben blast of the QE? Perhaps it's because of the flipside of the non-farm payrolls report - the unemployment rate rose to 8.3% from 8.2% in June. Either Mr. Market does not believe that the US economy is getting healthy or that he wants to ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates after latest data releases showed that our economy continue to be lucky - the unemployment rate dipped to 5.2% in July, retail sales grew by 5.4% in the year to June (the fastest since 2009) and home loan approvals ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... water... You continue to do it until you have documented evidence that you're getting growth in income and the unemployment rate consistent with your economic goals." "For the last seven months we've been treading water. That's different from what we ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... finish to US and European weeks," he said. "We had a better than expected jobs creation in the US, but we saw the unemployment rate tick up to 8.3 per cent, so that kept alive the hope that the Fed would step in and do something next month at their mid ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... would need to beat expectations by 100% -- most economists agree 200K monthly growth is needed - to dent the unemployment rate. Now is the time for the ECB too, not even after staring at a euro record high unemployment rate of 11.2% and the Eurozone's ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... estimated. Ugliest, employment growth in the last four months is far below the 250K needed to bring down the unemployment rate - reason why the jobless rate remained at 8.2% in May and June from 8.1% in April. So here we go again folks -- another reason ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... to 2,956.89. The Labor Department said the economy generated only a net 80,000 new jobs in June, leaving the unemployment rate at 8.2 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets fell on Friday as traders brushed off monetary stimulus measures in Europe ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... April's estimate of 2.7%-3.1%. Lowered growth would bring a higher rate of joblessness. The Fed now sees the unemployment rate to average 8%-8.2% by the final quarter of 2012 (from April's 7.8%-8%) before easing to 7.5%-8% next year (previously 7.3%-7.7%). ...

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