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RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... headlined by the 'Sydney Morning Herald' on 12 August. Columnist William Pesek's column on Bloomberg titled "Australia's Jobless Rate Should Worry the Fed" where Bill wrote that: "Folks in "The Lucky Country' have long been blessed with top-notch monetary ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... year results. In Australia, the market on Thursday flat, shrugging off a 12-year high in the unemployment rate. The jobless rate rate rose to 6.4 per cent in July, a 12-year high. It had been expected to remain at six per cent. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... lowest level in nearly six years. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) predict that the jobless rate would fall to 5.8% by yearend. The lead from the claimant count unemployment stats gives credence to this prediction. UK claimant ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... unemployment rate would drop below 6.0% by the end of this year?A Well, well, well... with six more months to go, the jobless rate is already at 6.1%. However (I'm not in the mood for buts this morning), I just wonder whether Wall Street's surge is due ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... forward? Why...because it makes sense. If James really knows better than the markets and his Fed colleagues - that the jobless rate would fall below 6% and inflation would be closer to 2.0% by year end - it's good for Wall Street for it indicates that ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... most optimistic forecast of the 52 economists it surveyed. Before this, Australia's Statistician reported that the jobless rate dropped to 5.8% in March from 6.1% in Feb with total employment rising by 18,100 last month - against expectations for an ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... unemployment was still a big challenge for the economy and that the Fed would maintain its extraordinary measures until the jobless rate fell a lot more. "The recovery still feels like a recession to many Americans, and it also looks that way in some ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... trod water ending at 9,660.05 points, while the CAC 40 in Paris climbed 0.24 per cent to 4,341.10 points. Britain's jobless rate firmed to 7.2 per cent in the quarter to December, official data showed, easing pressure on the Bank of England to raise ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... (August last year), this wasn't expected to be crossed until early 2016 at the latest. But like America's, Britain's jobless rate (7.1% in November) is one downtick away from the threshold. Like the Fed, it still thinks it's too soon to raise interest ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... Don't go expecting the Fed to raise interest rates anytime soon. Forget the January employment report that showed the jobless rate falling to 6.6% because "the recovery in the labor market is far from complete" and that the Fed "would be looking at a ...