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Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... week ended 5 June. This is higher than the expected fall to 450,000 claims and confirms that improvement in the US labour market remains painfully slow. What did Big Benny say about this? "The unemployment rate is still going to be high for a while ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... in May. Name me one rational individual brave enough to even think of buying a car in the face of a deteriorating labour market. It may be a bad month for US payrolls but the future is not all that bleak. Here, increases in the index of aggregate weekly ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... in the US - thanks to the European crisis - would counterbalance the loss of the tax credit. Similarly, improving labour market conditions in America would help. Sure jobless claims remains elevated - and one that could spark another sell-off tomorrow ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... released last week -- painted a picture consistent with increasing momentum in business activity. And remember the US labour market -- that scourge of the Federal Reserve and the Obama administration? There was good news there over the weekend. US non-farm ...

Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... construction spending and factory orders gained by more than expected in March. Yes, yes, there's still the weak labour market. But didn't we say it's a lagging indicator? Ultimately, it'll fall into place. Go away. This is a phrase that everybody wants ...

Wall Street beauties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... per cent increases -- from 0.1 per cent (January) and 0.3 per cent (February). The fledgling improvement in the US labour market, if sustained -- and increasing share market gains -- would encourage more and more Americans to go shopping. Gorgeous. US ...

How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... front of it before 2010 ends. In his statement, Stevens enumerated all that was good in the Australian economy. The labour market is good. "The rate of unemployment appears to have peaked at a much lower level than earlier expected." The business sector ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... good news iffy the jobs number print as expected. It indicates that the US is starting to make inroads into the labour market. This should support consumer confidence and encourage shopping. Speaking of consumer confidence. The Conference Board's consumer ...

Land of the free money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... would not allow this to happen, especially not under his watch. He'll have to see significant inroads made on the labour market and the housing market first before his fingers start getting itchy to pull the interest rate trigger. In the meantime, US ...

Don't know where to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... improve...or not. News this week offered more of the same and few clues. Take for instance what was offered last night. US labour market improving but...not improving enough. US jobless claims fell by 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 462,000 last week ...

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