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Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
The US dollar weakened, so too did the yield on 10-year US Treasuries while the equity market's benchmark indices closed on the up and up as inflation expectations in Uncle Sam's county eased, calming concerns that the US Federal Reserve would ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... Fed's 2.0% target for a little while yet. So there. Those who are convinced of a September lift-off heading before the US payrolls report will remain convinced after seeing it - with rationales in tote - those not, the same... and with their own rati ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... just have to guess the "when" as it comes - one data and financial market reaction at a time, starting with tonight's US payrolls.

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
It's back! That old familiar "good is bad and bad is good" trade on The Street. Stronger-than-expected US payrolls growth equals June interest rate lift off - Wall Street not happy camper. Weaker-than-expected and third consecutive monthly decline in ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... key interest rates. These could delay the Fed's much-speculated rates-lift off this year, more so given last week's US payrolls report that showed wages growing less than expected - an indication (and its effect on inflation) cited by Minneapolis Fed ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... jobs figures. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 22 points at 5,434. US payrolls company ADP said the private sector added 281,000 jobs in June, surging higher from 179,000 in May. Locally, in economic news ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... average of 182,300 of the previous three-months, that was down again from the 207,300 before that. Yet, the latest US payrolls report show the jobless rate falling to 7.2% last month from 7.9% at the start of this year. And why? Declining participation ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... tweeting?) but thanks to my editor, the twit (or is it tweet?) would read something like this, "Markets freeze ahead of US payrolls report#Wallstreet". The S&P 500 went up...then down...then ended basically flat (minus 0.05%). Not a bad move for only ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
US Payrolls. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Yes Virginia, the greatly speculated, the much awaited, the indicator that'll set the tone in the financial markets over the next four weeks, that mother of all eco stats -- the US Non-farm Payrolls ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... jobs created in those two months. If this improving labour market trend continues - and confirmed by the official US payrolls stats to be released at the weekend - we might not see the caveat "but remains elevated" the Fed inserted in its minutes when ...
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