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Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... economy has contracted by 25% since 2010 and by 30% since 2009. Its unemployment rate is at 25.6% with 50% of its young ones jobless. As they say, you can't flog a dead horse... but you can still flog the rest of the Eurozone. There's been too much ado ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have risen, following on the coat tails of a Wall Street energised by a fall in US jobless benefits claims. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies rose 0.41 per cent to end the Thursday at 6,707.88 points ...

Market lower as Wall Street falls

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... warned that the US economy continues to show weakness, with significant job market slack not reflected in the 5.4 per cent jobless rate. Analysts said trading volume was light ahead of Monday's Memorial Day holiday, when markets will be closed. Shares ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... S&P 500 index closing at a new all-time record high of 2121.10 points overnight. The headlined rationale is that the US jobless claims report reported overnight is good for the economy but the accelerating deflation in producer prices of final demand ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... back some losses, but continue to weigh on the broader share market. Investors are now absorbing news that the official jobless rate has risen to 6.2 per cent in April from 6.1 per cent in March. The unemployment rate is unlikely to make much of difference ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... releases overnight show that America's economy is gathering pace after the first quarter speed bump, muchas gracias. US jobless claims for the week ended 25 April fell to their lowest level in 15-years - suggesting an improvement in the official employment ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... when the unemployment rate reaches the 7.0% threshold. That threshold was breached way back in January 2014 when the UK's jobless rate dropped to 6.9% from 7.2% in December 2013 and has continued to improve since. Latest data from the Office for National ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... unemployment rate also flashed good news, falling to 6.1% in March from 6.2% in February and 6.3% in January. The decline in the jobless rate came despite the participation rate increasing to 64.8% - the highest since July last year - from 64.7%. How ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... "That's against the backdrop of the earnings season which so far has been a little bit up and down." A higher than expected jobless rate of 6.4 per cent in January also sent the Australian dollar tumbling in late morning trade. "The jobless rate climbed ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... following upwardly revised additions to 329,000 in December and 423,000 in November - the largest gain since May 2010. Jobless rate up to 5.7% last month from 5.6% in December but this was largely due to the lift in the participation rate from 62.7% ...