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Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... indicator of the domestic jobs market. The Age even has a nifty chart that shows the correlation between job ads and the unemployment rate on their website ( http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/job-ads-slide-for-fourth-straight-month-20130708-2pla9.html ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... expected. In Australia, the market on Monday finished lower as weaker commodities prices and the prospect of higher unemployment weighed on investors. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 32.2 points, or 0.67 per cent, at 4,809.5 points, while the ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... 195,000 in June. Better, upward revisions to April and May's tally added another 70,000 to the total jobs tally. The unemployment rate steadied at 7.6% due largely to an increase in the participation rate (yup, more workers are encouraged to look for ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... data which suggests the eurozone economy may be climbing out of recession. Markets brushed aside news of record high unemployment in the eurozone and more weak Chinese economic data, while gold prices rebounded from the lowest levels since August 2010. ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... to open higher after positive rallies on overseas markets as traders digested news of an unexpected drop in German unemployment, solid data from the US and comments from a top Federal Reserve official that the central bank would not hastily end its stimulus ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... Naranaya Kocherlakota released a statement arguing that the Fed "should continue to buy assets at least until the unemployment rate has fallen below 7 percent, as long as the medium-term outlook for the inflation rate remains below 2.5 percent and longer-term ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... Market Committee announced that it was keeping its $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying program in place, saying that unemployment remains high and growth is still being held back by government spending cuts. But during a news conference Bernanke said that ...

No need to fear 1994-style crash

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... growth, neither of which is presently in place. Jobs growth has picked up, but not at a sufficient rate to bring the unemployment rate down meaningfully," he said.

Aust shares open more than 1pc higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... one per cent-plus rise at the open follows similar gains on Wall Street overnight, following positive retail and unemployment data and a rise in the US dollar against the Japanese Yen. Rivkin global analyst Tim Radford said if the gains stayed strong ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... Australian bureau of Statistics will release May's employment figures on Thursday morning. Forecasts suggest the unemployment rate will rise 0.1 per cent to 5.6 per cent and the number of people with jobs will fall by 10,000.