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LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... 180K pick up in August and a 243K gain in July. This was more than expectations for a 215K addition. Better, the unemployment rate now has a five (5) in front of it. Mother said it dropped to 5.9% in September - the lowest in six years - from 6.1% in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... bond unit Pimco lost its chief. Madrid's IBEX 35 index added 0.63 per cent after Spain raised its growth and cut its unemployment forecasts. GfK's headline German household confidence index fell to 8.6 points in September and was forecast to fall to ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... 2016 and 2.3%-2.5% (again not forecasted last June). Perhaps, it's due to the slight improvement forecast for the unemployment rate: 5.4%-5.6% (from 5.4-5.7%) in 2015; 5.1%-5.4% (from 5.1%-5.5%) in 2016; and 4.9%- 5.3% in 2017. Then again, the slight ...

Unbelievably beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... Labour Force, Australia, Aug 2014" the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released yesterday, folks. Australia's unemployment rate dropped back to 6.1% in August after the suspect outsized 0.3 percentage point jump to 6.4% in July - a figure I suspected ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... trade, he said. The release of better than expected employment figures at 1130 AEST, which included a fall in the unemployment rate to 6.1 per cent, failed to have any immediate impact on the market. BHP Billiton was 22.5 cents lower at $35.575, Rio ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... Think I'm gonna go with Janet on this one. More so given the weekend's disappointing US jobs numbers - while the unemployment rate eased to 6.1% in August from 6.2% in July, employment increased by only 142K (expectations were for a 230K gain). Another ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... on Thursday night, which some believe could result in new stimulus measures for the eurozone economy. In the US, unemployment numbers are to be released on Friday night. "The hesitation from investors is likely to increase downside risk in the short ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... "under-utilisation" in the labour market. No sir. Speaking of slack, they may even be expanding in the Eurozone. While Germany's unemployment rate steadied at 6.7% in August from July, the number of Germans out of work increased by 2,000 in the month ...