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Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... light with figures enough to put reasonable doubt into those willing the US economy into a double dip. The US Labor Department reported that overall non-farm payrolls declined by 54,000 in August. And just to highlight the pessimism leading up to the ...

Fuld me twice

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... general counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "Instead, the Federal Reserve, the United States Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and others tried hard to save it - not for its own sake, of course, but for the sake ...

Legal risks pose social media stumbling blocks

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... investment providers face from a social media perspective include everything from legal issues, getting through to the IT department and ignorance within the financial services and fear of what social media opens a business up too. "There is not really ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 27 August 2010. Wall Street stopped... listened... and rejoiced. Neither the US Commerce Department's slicing of its second quarter GDP growth estimate to 1.6 per cent from 2.4 per cent nor Intel's revenue warning got the ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... buy old houses with their own money. We saw this again last night. They don't want to buy new houses. The US Commerce Department reported that new home sales fell by 12.7 per cent in July to an annualised rate of 276,000 units - the lowest on record ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... the first time since July 2009 blind-sided investors, who had been expecting activity to increase. Earlier, the Labor Department said first-time claims for jobless benefits rose to a nine-month high. Volume was low, analysts said, which pointed to a ...

Nightmare on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... benefits last week, showing firings accelerated on signs the economy slowed." They're all talking about the US Labor Department report showing that initial jobless claims increased by 2,000 to 484,000 in the week ended 7 August from 482,000 in the previous ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... sales reports showed shoppers remain skittish about spending as hiring remains scarce". It referred to the US Labor Department's report that showed a initial jobless claims rose by 19,000 to 479,000 in the week end 30 July. Financial markets expected ...

Weak old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... the only word to describe last night's economic data releases out of the America. US consumer no spend. The Commerce Department reported that personal spending showed no growth in June - lower than the expected gain of 0.1 per cent and follows a 0.1 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... confirmed the economy ended the April-to-June quarter on a weak note. Personal spending was unchanged in June, the Commerce Department reported. It was the third straight month of lacklustre consumer demand. Incomes were also flat, the weakest showing ...