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Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... this budding good news in the US housing sector could be sustained going forward. Naysayers point to the rising unemployment rate among Americans to pooh-pooh any sustainable advance. And many - those still with jobs - remain fearful that perhaps tomorrow ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... suffered its biggest contraction in the first quarter of 1958. At the time, real GDP plummeted by 3.1 per cent. The unemployment rate increased by 2.5 per cent from an average of 4.3 per cent in 1957 to 6.8 per cent during the recession of the following ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... yesterday's fall in Australia's unemployment numbers. The Australian Labour Force Report showed that the country's unemployment rate fell to 5.4 per cent in April after jumping 5 basis points to 5.7 per cent in the previous month. The number of people ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... Employment is a lagging indicator. The 1990/91 recession showed that business activity took off even as the unemployment rate continued to rise. The fall in house prices is good and still orderly - they have not dropped at the scale seen in the US and ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... record 19 per cent fall posted in the previous month. There's not much to hang onto here especially with the unemployment rate and foreclosures still rising and inventories of unsold homes still high. But slowly rising consumer confidence, lower mortgage ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... bottom of 322.98 points in January 1990 to 417.1 points exactly two years later. What was happening to the US unemployment rate at this same time? Unemployment continued to rise from 5.4 per cent to 6.4 per cent over the same period and did not peak ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... June share price index contract was trading up 26 points to 3,652 on a volume of 9,628 contracts. Australia's unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 5.7 per cent in March compared with an unrevised 5.2 per cent in February, according to the Australian ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... lost in March after a 1,800 increase in the previous month. And oh my goodness, it would be so bad that the unemployment rate is expected that the unemployment rate would 'surge' to 5.4 per cent from 5.2 per cent in February. There is no doubt that obits ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... more than 3 per cent higher last week, apparently seeing passed the 663,000 jobs lost in March that took the US unemployment rate to a 25-year high of 8.5 per cent. Jobs and employment are lagging indicators and the US economy appears to have already ...

GFC Problem solved

... which would again invite a sell-off in equities, one of which would be tomorrow's US payrolls data, where the unemployment rate is expected to surge to 8.5 per cent in March from 8.1 per cent. At this rate, it is looking ever so likely that expectations ...