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Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
US bourses fell overnight after data revealed 3.8 million Americans filed for unemployment last week. Over the past six weeks, 30.3 million Americans have filed claims for unemployment benefits as businesses shutter thanks to coronavirus shutdowns. ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... nuke adventure in April, the Boston bombings, the threat of America going to war with Syria and who can forget...the US shutdown and debt ceiling. These all proved short-lived. These only provided buying opportunities to those that kept their faith on ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... cent, or 35.46 points, to 2,229.24 and Hong Kong added 0.42 per cent, or 98.05 points, to close at 23,438.15. With the US shutdown and default crisis out of the way for the time being, investors are now eyeing the delayed release of US non-farm payrolls ...

US shutdown slowing pension payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
The continuing US shutdown is beginning to slow pension payments, with fears growing some payments could stop. The US secretary for the Veterans Administration Benefits and Services, Eric Shinseki, appeared end last week before the Congress committee ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... Frankfurt's DAX 30 shed 1.13 per cent to 8,525.35 points and the CAC 40 in Paris retreated 1.04 per cent to 4,121.01. "The US shutdown saga is starting to really roil markets and what was once thought to be a case of chest thumping by politicians may ...
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