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The happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... out of left field to suddenly reverse market optimism, this week's the week. And why not? The latest US non-farm payrolls report provides a strong enough tailwind to push it there and further. America generated 236,000 jobs in February -- plus 246,000 ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
Was it good? Or was it bad? I refer, of course, to that mother of all eco stats - the US non-farm payrolls report - the one that'll guide financial market activity, if not through the end of this year or longer, at least until next month. It was good. ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... August, it's trended lower since peaking at 57.3 last April. This brings us to the disappointing August non-farm payrolls report. Employment increased by 96,000 last month against expectations for a 125K gain. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... been gradually coming to the surface." Mr Smith said investors would be focused on the release of the US non-farm payrolls report - a key employment indicator in the world's largest economy - due out later on Friday (AEST). The spot price of gold in ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... wishing and hoping and praying for another Ben blast of the QE? Perhaps it's because of the flipside of the non-farm payrolls report - the unemployment rate rose to 8.3% from 8.2% in June. Either Mr. Market does not believe that the US economy is getting ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... index remained under the 50 expansion/contraction line. Perhaps Uncle Ben's also waiting for tomorrow's non-farm payrolls report before shouting "action!" Financial markets expected a plus 100K print in employment. But the actuals would need to beat ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... to see their reaction to these decisions. And then we wait some more. Wait for the release of the US non-farm payrolls report for June. And depending on how it pans out, perhaps wait for the Fed's counter measures. Arghhh&. Whoever coined the phrase ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... expansion/contraction mark last month. Woe is us. It would have been not as bad if we got a good reading from the US non-farm payrolls report. But we did not. Economists missed big time. US businesses hired only 69,000 workers, almost half the 150,000 ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... set the tone in the financial markets over the next four weeks, that mother of all eco stats -- the US Non-farm Payrolls report - settled nothing when it was released last week. Wall Street's knee-jerk reaction was to sell, sell, sell, because the April ...