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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... 0.94 per cent to settle at 1,070.25. Investors picked up bargains after the Labor Department said new claims for US unemployment benefits dipped more than expected last week. Initial claims fell to 454,000 in the week ending July 3 from the previous ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
The Australian market is likely to open weaker on Monday after an unexpected decline in the US unemployment rate had US stocks close lower on Friday. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 30 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... - US stocks fell on Thursday, amid a slew of negative economic news, including a report showing new claims for US unemployment benefits jumped more than expected last week. After spending much of the day deep in negative territory, stocks recouped some ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... agencies after 31 March. What does Benny think? Are these still going as planned? Or given the stickiness in the US unemployment rate, are more stimuli required? The hearing -- called "Prospects for Employment Growth: Is Additional Stimulus Needed?" ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... nations. And then there's the US. Oh, Miranda my Miranda, whereforth art thou my Miranda? News overnight showed that US unemployment claims increased by 8,000 to 480,000 last week - the fourth increase in five weeks, highest level in two months and more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... Wednesday after rising earlier in the trading session as investors cashed in profits ahead of anxiously awaited US unemployment figures, due this week. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 30.16 points, or 0.57 per cent, to 5,253.15 points. FRANKFURT ...

One down, more to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... to Australia when the RBA first started raising interest rates? But it was not to be...and rightly so. Not with US unemployment still at double-digits and not with the US housing market weakening again. Then again, the Fed's tenor has positive written ...

The I word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... Bunning, he said that, " The bulk of the evidence indicates that resource slack is now substantial," referring to the US unemployment rate and the slack in manufacturing capacity. "I continue to expect slack resources, together with the stability of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... Australian sharemarket has opened 0.3 per cent higher, led by stocks with US operations and wealth managers, after the US unemployment rate declined unexpectedly. At 1017 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 14.4 points, or 0.31 per cent, at 4,716.6 ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the sky blued and everything became beautiful when reports that the US unemployment rate dropped to 10.0 per cent in November - not the 'it would remain at 10.2 per cent or higher' expected by consensus. The ...

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