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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... June SPI futures index was up 45 points at 3,670. In economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian labour market data for April and the Melbourne Institute survey of consumer inflationary expectations for April are released. The Westpac-Melbourne ...

Make love not leverage

... by 20 per cent in March and follows a 23 per cent reduction in the previous month. This is good news for the US labour market. Last night's positive indicators follow equally encouraging data on US durable goods orders and new home sales released late ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... claims were up 85.8 per cent year-on-year while continuing claims jumped 81.8 per cent. The deterioration in the US labour market and tighter lending standards not surprisingly are continuing to pressure the housing sector. The Mortgage Bankers Association ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... 20,000 to a record 4.788 million in the week ending January 24. The report points to continued weakness in the US labour market. Official employment figures for January will be released tomorrow. US factory orders fell by 3.9 per cent in December, larger-than-expectations ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... growth, it has usually taken around three years to regain the pre-recession level of output and the deterioration in labour market conditions has been even more protracted.' Indeed he speaks the truth. Looking at the UK's two previous recessions, the ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... dropping. It hit a low of 3.9 per cent in February last year. Everyone was scared of the likely consequences of having a labour market that is operating beyond full capacity - rising inflation and interest rates. Now the media is again scaremongering ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... jump to a conclusion that Australia is looking down the barrel of recession is downright stupid. At this point, the labour market is just settling to its natural equilibrium level. Recall that just a year or so ago, Australia was even importing overseas ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... trend higher as the global financial crisis progresses but it would not be as bad as the deterioration in the US labour market nor the 9 per cent some are predicting. As you read this piece, Mr. Rudd is readying yet another stimulus targeting small Australian ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... of the pink slips - 1.25 million - were handed in the past three months alone. Being a lagging indicator, the US labour market is sure to pass the two million mark for the entirety of 2008 as heads that were guillotined in December are added to the casualty ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... 70 per cent for the US, 55 per cent for Australia. Consumers' aversion to spending brought about by the weakening labour market will be further heightened by deflation. The same is true for businesses. Companies could suffer during periods of inflation. ...