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All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... 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 rationales.

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... 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 president ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... 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 in the ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... 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 a brave soul ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... first time for everything. This might just be ECRI's virgin moment. Somethin' good is suggested by the last US payrolls report that showed increased by 103,000 in September - better than expectations for a 60,000 gain - with 137,000 heads added to private ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... crisis across the Atlantic. Bring it on Europe! The guess. According to Bloomberg, consensus predicts that the US payrolls report would show that some 536,000 workers have found jobs in May. If accurate, this would be the biggest one-month hiring since ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... it has been flushed down the gurgler like the Easter eggs that were consumed days before. Remember how the US payrolls report was spun favourably despite coming in worse than market expectations? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 132K jobs ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... their calls for a double-dip, especially when the stimulus is withdrawn. A lot therefore hinges on the monthly US payrolls report and its future direction. Here, the news is good. A chart of the monthly changes in US employment shows the job numbers ...

Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... dipping to 469K against expectations of 470K. The small dip in claims strengthened market conviction that the US payrolls report would show a 0.1 per cent increase in the jobless rate to 9.8 per cent in February with jobs shrinking by 50,000 jobs. And ...

Debt load

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... that the US Federal Reserve is about to raise interest rates soon because of the heaps better-than-expected US payrolls report for November. The Fed was quick to deny - interest rates will remain low for as long as necessary - and the White House even ...
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