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Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... pessimism that's currently doing the rounds in the Australian labour market. This is not consistent with the rise in the unemployment rate from 5.4% in December last year to 5.8% last month and forecasts of a further rise to 6.25%. This isn't consistent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... Europe's main stock markets closed narrowly mixed, with London sliding after a bigger-than-expected drop in British unemployment takes it close to the central bank's threshold to begin raising interest rates. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ended down 0.12 ...

Fear not the fugly jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014

Big fall one day, up and away the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... equity market's bull run and the continued flow of better -than-expected US stats (underscored by the drop in the unemployment rate to 7.0% in November) have renewed taper talks as soon as when the Fed meets on the 17th and 18th of this month and certainly ...

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

Unwind for Xmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... indicators - jobs and inflation - the Fed monitors to time taper says it's time to taper. I repeat, what the fudge? The unemployment rate fell to 7.0% in November - if I remember right, that's the threshold when taper talks stop and taper act begins ...

That evil word is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... Surely, this ain't so! The Fed knows it so do you, I and Irene. And by the by...I'm convince that the drop in the unemployment rate to 7.3% had been largely due to falling participation in the job market - down from around 66% back in 2007 to just 62.8% ...

Santa Claus is comin' to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013

'Tis the season to be bubbly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013