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No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... invoke my right to remain silent. 'Twas because that all-important, that mother of all eco stats, the US Non-farm Payrolls report, did not contain any shocking information to change the Fed's thoughts on monetary policy. US employment increased by 175K ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Virginia, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is set to release the mother of all eco stats - the US Private Non-farm Payrolls Report - this coming Friday. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), a strong report would support the "the US economic ...

Unwind for Xmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... Hilsenrath, and PIMCO boss, Bill Gross, are talking taper. BIOF. Blame it on Friday's better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report and the markets' head-scratching reaction to the November jobs numbers. After dropping in the first four of the five ...

That evil word is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... "du jour" is that a December taper becomes a clear, real and present danger should Friday night's US non-farm payrolls report shows that the economy added more than the magic number of 200K last month. It's gonna be a real nail biter if the fate not ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... of 182,300 of the previous three-months, that was down again from the 207,300 before that. Yet, the latest US payrolls report show the jobless rate falling to 7.2% last month from 7.9% at the start of this year. And why? Declining participation in the ...

The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... this month - but tonight's US non-farm payroll report could prove to be the ultimate deciding factor. Unless the payrolls report shows that employment dropped a lot or the unemployment increased a lot in August, chances are all systems are go for a September ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... but thanks to my editor, the twit (or is it tweet?) would read something like this, "Markets freeze ahead of US payrolls report#Wallstreet". The S&P 500 went up...then down...then ended basically flat (minus 0.05%). Not a bad move for only a brave soul ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... latest update on the US labour market. But nah. While Wall Street rallied following the release of the US non-farm payrolls report for May, it hasn't settled anything about whether dear Uncle Ben would taper or not. There was something for everyone. ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... than expected but factory orders disappointed. However, the more important labour market stat - the ADP private payrolls report - disappointed. This is encapsulated in the latest Fed's Beige Book survey that economic activity expanded at a "modest to ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... number data points - all two of 'em -- disappointed market expectations. There was the ADP Research Institute payrolls report that showed only 158,000 private sector jobs were created in March - no good for a market that's predicting a 200,000 addition. ...