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Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... market that is sapping consumer confidence and retail sales figures so low the markets became excited last week when the Census Bureau announced a July monthly increase of just 0.5%. Unemployment appearing frozen solid on 14 million - 23 times the number ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... leader from April 1990 to May 1994 for the Liberal party, Hewson was formerly an economist for the Australian Treasury (Census and Statistics), the Reserve Bank of Australia, the International Monetary Fund and the UN. He also held roles as Shadow Finance ...

Bigger picture, nicer picture

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... The WSJ could use the exact sentence to explain the latest US retail sales report released overnight. According to the US Census Bureau, retail spending increased by better-than-expected 0.8 per cent in November following a 1.7 per cent increase in the ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... out outstanding US mortgages or pays for the wages of additional hires among US firms? According to Table 1155 of the US Census Bureau's " The 2010 Statistical Abstract", US total mortgage outstanding was US$14.6 trillion at the end of 2008. This would ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... cent from 9.5 per cent in July. However, they expect an addition of 30,000 private sector positions when the temporary census workers are factored out. For better or for worse, tomorrow's actual print of the US non-farm payrolls report for August could ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... appears to be weakening, but the overall numbers of the past few months were distorted by the hiring and firing of temporary census workers. Private sector jobs have been consistently rising in the past seven months. Sure if you look at the latest ISM ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... government sector handed 202,000 public servants their pink slips during the month, but 143,000 of these consisted of temporary Census workers. The private sector increased hiring, adding 71,000 to its payrolls in July on top of the 31,000 additional ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... markets expect the US unemployment rate to nudge up to 9.6 per cent in July. Employment is expected to fall by 65,000 as more Census workers are let go. Private sector jobs are forecast to increase by 90,000. This leaves the US jobs report wide open ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... Financial markets have pencilled in a 125K drop in overall employment in June largely due to the retrenchment of temporary census workers. However. They expect private sector jobs to climb by 110K in the month. It would be interesting to see how financial ...