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Excuses, excuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... have to make excuses.A For excuse me, the "establishment survey's" sibling, the "household survey" showed that the unemployment rate falling to 6.6% in January from 6.7% in the previous month and 7.0% the month before. The good thing about last month's ...

Credit Suisse goes "wild" in its 2014 outlook

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... Bank would need to cut rates a further 50-100 basis points and the banks would need to pass this onto mortgagees, unemployment would have to remain stable even if business investment contracts and the government would have to remain lax about immigration ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... one week's worth of data and they bounce around week by week. Not to mention, too, that the week before last week, unemployment insurance claims were revised up by 3K - showing that they increased by 22K instead of 19K. No, no, no... I didn't just mention ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... points at 5,119. The US trade deficit rose a more-than-expected 12 per cent in December, but weekly new claims for unemployment insurance fell to 331,000 from 351,000 the previous week. The improvement in claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, came a ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... economic recovery remains in track" crowd. Bets are in that 189,000 more Americans found jobs in January and the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 6.7%. Close to the 175K reported by ADP right? Could be good but let me remind you about the match ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... analysts. Analysts do not expect significant market swings ahead of the Labor Department report on January job growth and unemployment on Friday. LONDON - European equities failed to get a boost from solid economic data out of the eurozone after lacklustre ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... that spending by Japan's households was up last month as the nation's factories expanded their output, while the unemployment rate hit a six-year low. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index climbed 24.741 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 4874.583.

Roast Turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... drill.A Higher interest rates weakens consumer spending, lowers company profits, reduces business investment, raises unemployment, weakens consumer spending, slows growth, capital flows out, weakens currency, central bank raises interest rates... And ...

Aussie employment outlook 'slightly dismal': Sloan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
Australia's unemployment rate is set to pass 6% in the coming year, and could go further if the Abbott government does not address labour market regulation, according to The Australian contributing economics editor Judith Sloan. Speaking at the annual ...

Li likes 7%, maybe 7.2%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014