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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... from June but maintaining the solid 200,000-plus monthly streak since February. The market had expected 230,000. The unemployment rate rose a mere 0.1 point to 6.2 per cent, still near its lowest level since October 2008 and well down from the 7.9 per ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... from 52.8 in June. This increased business activity is slowly making a dent on the region's joblessness with the unemployment rate inching down to a less than expected 11.5% in June - the lowest level since September 2012 - from 11.6% in May and the ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... gave, we have to go back to the FOMC statement - and some small but salient tweaks the Fed made. Tweak, tweak: "The unemployment rate, though lower, remains elevated." (18 June statement) "Labor market conditions improved, with the unemployment rate ...

It's all about the US week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... global-currency strategist at BNP Paribas SA's corporate and investment-banking unit in London, on July 23." By the by, the unemployment rate is expected to remain at 6.1% in July. At the end of the day (or should I say, week), the balance of probabilities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... cent in June to an annual pace of 406,000, the Commerce Department said. On the positive side, new claims for US unemployment insurance benefits slid to an eight-year low last week, dropping 19,000 to 284,000, the US Labour Department reported. LONDON ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... improved picture in Portugal, dealers say. London's FTSE 100 rallied 1.11 per cent to 6,784.67 points as Britain's unemployment rate hit 6.5 per cent in the three months to May - the lowest point since late 2008. Frankfurt's benchmark DAX 30 index won ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... financial crisis produced a sharp fall in economic growth and an increase of nearly two percentage points in the unemployment rate. Overseas, the impact was much more severe. Reinhart and Rogoff suggest that the average cost of a banking crisis is a ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... These, or at least, the Bank Rate, are about to change soon', for the British economy continues to gain momentum. The unemployment rate has fallen to a five-year low of 6.6% in April from 6.8% in March - below what used to be the BOE's 7.0% threshold ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... Oil. In Australia, the market on Thursday ended a three-day run of losses with modest gains, despite a rise in the unemployment rate. Unemployment rose to six per cent in June - although the participation rate is up and almost 16,000 extra people found ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... adviser Bill Chatterton said local investors remained upbeat. He said improvements in the US, where another fall in the unemployment rate last week helped push the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 17,000 points for the first time, were the main drivers ...