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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... positive for the US dollar," Ms Lien said in a research note. "February was a good but not a great month for the labour market." Wall Street closed lower, with the Dow Jones and S&P500 both giving up about 0.7 per cent on the day. In terms of Monday's ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... month US economic data - except for housing - had been improving. I wanted to put employment as an exception but no, labour market indicators have also been strengthening. Yesterday, the ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors private payrolls report showed 217,000 ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... increase in employment and two reporting declines. Perhaps Charlie Sheen's following the economic trends and knows that labour market conditions are improving, he's demanded a pay rise from US$2 million per episode to US$3 million. Or it could be that ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... Australia's "underlying inflation has fallen by a substantial amount from the peak in 2008." Perhaps this is due to tight labour market conditions and buoyant consumer confidence not translating into surging consumption. "But from a macroeconomic point ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... that continuing claims continued their 2-year long trend of decline. Now ain't that just a swell indication for the labour market? You can read many things into Wall Street's performance overnight, but at the end of the day - or at the close of trading ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... next. Ever heard of "not seeing the forest for the trees"? The fact is that the bigger picture shows that the US labour market is heading in the right direction. The pace of improvement may be too slow for comfort... but it's getting there. The positive ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... it's determined to pump an unlimited amount of the green stuff until the threat of deflation is no more and the labour market becomes whole again. And then there's Sir Obama doing his own bit - extending his predecessor's tax cuts, reducing payroll taxes ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... 2.3 per cent rise. But, yes there's a but... some still doubt whether this could be sustained given the still weak labour market. US employment rose by a meagre 39,000 in November and the jobless rate jumped to 9.8 percent. Here's my but or butt, whichever ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... of Supply Management have all been reported on the up and up. So how do we reconcile still America's still soft labour market with strengthening growth indicators? Simple. The unemployment rate is a lagging indicator of the economy (according to my observation ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
Uncle Sam and his citizens celebrate the day of thanks today. They have much to be thankful for -- they have had bountiful harvest, there's US$600 billion of it coming their way. But not only that, their economy has come back to life after the mid-year ...