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Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... be reflected in the US payrolls data, sending the rising rate of unemployment into reverse. And reverse the unemployment rate will go, especially now that US businesses are generating profits beyond "experts" expectations. Continuing the good news on ...

Super jobs bonanza

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... biggest opportunities are," said Doyle. Hay's report and optimism about jobs in super come at a time when the unemployment rate is at a six year high. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures noted that the unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... impatience right here, right now to expect companies to deliver a bottomline not written in red? The rise in the US unemployment rate in June was the spark that started this renewed wave of pessimism. True, jobless people spend less. Less spending equals ...

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... something for everyone to grab onto to support their convictions. For the bears. Last week's news that the US unemployment rate rose to a 26-year high of 9.5 per cent in June indicate that the green shoots have withered. Rising joblessness, along with ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... demand to take up the slack -- not with a rising unemployment and more recently, the return to deflation. Japan's unemployment rate reach 5.2 per cent in May, up from 5.0 per cent in the previous month and only 4.1 per cent at the start of 2009. The ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the corresponding jobless rates before and after. It shows the unemployment rate continuing to rise months after the recession is over - from as brief as two months in the early 70s and early 80s to a longer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... stocks sharply lower. The Labor Department reported that US employers shed 467,000 jobs in June, pushing the unemployment rate to a fresh 26-year high of 9.5 per cent. Analysts had expected a smaller number of 365,000 job losses, but a higher unemployment ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... Hurricane Katrina hit the US, this indicator dropped by a full 18 points from the previous month even as the unemployment rate was at a low 5 per cent - and headed even lower thereafter. Now for the doubling of delinquencies on prime mortgages. The Office ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... headed north even now that GM is already bankrupt. The S&P fell even deeper on 20 April. The excuse - the US unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 per cent in March from 8.1 per cent the previous month. The market recovered and headed north even now that US ...

Take your pick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... with the panel of 45 economists expecting some 4.5 million workers will be out of a job this year - raising the unemployment rate to 9.8 per cent. The jobless rate is expected to come down only slightly to 9.3 per cent next year. You can also quote from ...