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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... the labour market will be sustained," Mr Bernanke said in a speech. "Further significant improvements in the unemployment rate will likely require a more-rapid expansion of production and demand from consumers and businesses, a process that can be supported ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... Positive comments from United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, including expectations that the unemployment rate would keep falling, helped Wall Street post its biggest gains of the year and the Dow Jones Industrial Average surge past the ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... that it's become more optimistic about the US expansion as "Labor market conditions have improved further, the unemployment rate has declined notably in recent months." And we're now beginning to see this flow through into consumer spending. US retail ...

Good bacteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... economy lost 15,400 jobs in February - worse than expectations for an increase in the headcount of 5,000 - and the unemployment rate rose to 5.2%. The RBA may not need to administer a stronger dose of Yakult if the virtuous cycle in the US continues ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... currently being implemented by most member countries in the region. And did I mention, rising joblessness? The unemployment rate rose to a record high of 10.7% in January and the jobs component of the latest eurozone PMI survey tells us not to expect ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... said the market also had ignored the local unemployment figures, released on Thursday, which showed Australia's unemployment rate rose to 5.2 per cent in February, in line with market expectations. Local investors were encouraged by Wall Street's performance ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... supply". Ahh yes, downside risks and Europe. A view given credence by stats released overnight. The Eurozone's unemployment rate rose to a euro-area record of 10.7% in January; its PMI remained in contraction territory with a reading of 49 in February ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
Deleveraging in US and Europe is going to be painful and will require courageous actions from politicians that run against the grain, according to head of global investment solutions at UBS. Deleveraging will mean years of slowed growth coupled with ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... jobs - the biggest since November 2010 -- were created in this, our "lucky country" last month which took the unemployment rate down to 5.1% (and no you cannot attribute this to the participation rate for it has increased to 65.3% from 65.2%). Expectations? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... labour force data for January. The figures are expected to show an additional 15,000 jobs in January, with the unemployment rate rising to 5.3 per cent, the median of 12 economists surveyed by AAP said. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) ...