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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... forecasts. It said growth would amount to 1.1 per cent next year, down from the 1.2 per cent it forecast in May, and unemployment would rise to 12.2 per cent from the previous 12.1 per cent. Mr Daghlian said the release of economic data in China and ...

Debt, deficit, now deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... market looks set to open flat after international markets retreated after downward revisions of eurozone growth and unemployment. At 0826 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down five points at 5,412. The European Union ...

RBA and Melbourne Cup two-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... mouth are that the official cash rate would remain at 2.5% because of latest indications - retail sales, housing, unemployment rate, AiG Performance of Manufacturing index - suggest the economy is gently recovering. Governor Glen would also attempt to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... impress. At 0824 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,419. Eurozone unemployment is back flirting with the 20-million mark, after what analysts said was a stark "revising away" of a tourism-led summer ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... goodness? I'd like to think so...but not yet. Just take the delayed US non-farm payrolls released last week. The unemployment rate was good, it was heading in the right direction - down to 7.2% in September from 7.9% at the start of this year. But it ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... Bank of England's (BOE) 'forward guidance' that it would keep interest rates at their current low levels until the unemployment rate falls to around 7% - which it does not expect until mid-2016 -- and prices remain stable. This is because while the unemployment ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... back at his statement now, this appears to be the clincher: "If a substantial part of the reductions in measured unemployment were judged to reflect cyclical declines in labor force participation rather than gains in employment, the committee would be ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... creation, generating a less-than-expected 148,000 jobs during the last month even though the data also showed the unemployment rate fell to 7.2 per cent from 7.3 per cent a month earlier. The euro closed at $US1.3773, up from $US1.3681 late in New York ...

Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... minimal effect on that which accounts for around 60% of the economy -- consumer spending. Despite still relatively low unemployment, improving consumer confidence, the wealth effect and record low interest rates, retail spending growth has averaged only ...