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Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... as output increases (up 7.6 per cent) while wages remain flat or decline (down 5.9 per cent) as a result of poor labour market conditions. There was not much change in Europe either. The European Central Bank and the Bank of England both kept their respective ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... homes are again heading south. And then there's also the renewed climb in initial jobless claims. Woe to the US labour market. Good data (and news). Big Ben reiterates his economic conditions "are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal ...

Sentiment stirs bad mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... and that confidence historically leads retail spending. Where is growth going to come from now? Not with the US labour market still soft. Not with the Fed starting to normalise policy settings. Not with the Obama administration poised to raise taxes. ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... will all come to grief because whatever growth there will be in the US would be weak given the poor state of the labour market. Has anything changed significantly this week from the last one? Yet Wall Street was on the up and up over the past three trading ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... economist Michael Turner. "The question will be just how long the RBA can ignore the incredible strength in the Aussie labour market with wage pressures mounting through resource and construction sectors at least." Michael Blythe, CBA chief economist. ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Greece is the word Greece and the US labour market dominated the financial headlines last week. Greece and its efforts to contain its widening budget deficit provides a forward view of how things could escalate from bad to worse and when debts go wild. ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... that the trend decline in jobless claims that started in March last year could be stalling. Not good for America's labour market. Not good for beefing up the case for a sustainable US recovery. The US non-farm payrolls report for January is set for release ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... under the growing belief that the global economy is weaker than many investors expected and is likely to stop the US labour market from rebounding in the coming months. A flood of bad news, including rising debt levels in European nations and an unexpected ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... right in giving them the finger and might be now telling them to "eat my shorts!" The improvement in Australia's labour market would generate a positive feedback loop of increased spending, higher business sales and profits and rising investment in building ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
Happy New Year! The year 2009 is now a memory but a happy one at that. It was the year when bear calls were dismissed and risk-taking paid off - handsomely. Could we expect more of the same this year? Can equity markets, commodity markets and other ...