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- More Jobs Mean Higher Rates, Say Experts
- A strong rise in employment in October will give the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA added confidence to lift interest rates in December, economists say.It will be the first time the RBA will have raised rates for the third consecutive month, if it does so.A larger than expected jump...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Wallstrip: Education Stocks
- What's an education system without profiteers? No education system at all! Apollo Group Inc. APOL, Strayer Education Inc. STRA, ITT Educational Services Inc. ESI, DeVry, Inc. DV
- Videos 2008-11-19
- Unemployment Rate Cushioned By Government Hiring
- In July in some of the first good news the U.S. economy had seen in several months the unemployment rate actually declined slightly. It was down to 9.4 percent from about 9.6 percent. Many economists still predict it going higher as economic activity in the U.S. stagnates or...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- 10.2% Unemployment: 1983 and 2009
- I love this chart from this morning's Wall Street Journal. It's a quick comparison between today and 1983, which was the last time the unemployment rate was 10.2% and the last time I was considered a formidable power forward on the basketball court. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
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- Will There Be a 'New Normal' For Unemployment?
- In my last post, I wrote about the longer than usual time period I think it will take for unemployment to return to its normal, or full employment level, but I didn't define what normal unemployment is. An important question for policymakers is whether there will be "a new normal"...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- What the Unemployment Numbers Tell Us About the Economy
- Editor's Note: Economist Mark Thoma is guest-blogging for The Macro View this week. The weekly report on new claims for unemployment benefits was released yesterday, and it showed that claims fell by 21,000 to 530,000. This continues a series of small improvements in recent weeks, but today's...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Stock Futures Mixed Ahead of Payroll Figures
- (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Friday as investors braced for the all-important monthly payrolls figures and unemployment rate, due at 8:30 a.m. EST. At 5:43 a.m. EST, futures for the S&P 500 were flat, Dow Jones futures were down 0.11...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Mortgage Brokers Association economic commentary.(Banking and Finance)
- The most common forecast for this year, represented by the Blue Chip consensus, is for the economy to grow at about 3. 5 percent and for the unemployment rate to decline slightly as the year proceeds. Headline inflation is expected to hold relative The...
- Research articles 2005-02-28
- Five Jobs for Lousy Times and No Talent Necessary
- CNNMoney recently came out with its list of the "50 Best Jobs in America." The list assemblers ranked jobs based on personal satisfaction, job security, future growth, benefit to society, stress -- and presumably pay, since, after all, it's CNNMoney, not CNNSelf-gratification. The...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Odd man out; The European economy; No recession in Europe.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
- THE world's two biggest economies, America and Japan, seem to be sliding dangerously towards recession. Will the euro area follow them? On the surface, the latest news is grim. In January, unemployment in the euro area rose for the first time in almost four...
- Research articles 2001-03-03
- Israel and the Palestinian territories
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the most fought-over places in the world, the area once known as Palestine is divided into three parts. ISRAEL AREA: 8,131 sq mi. POPULATION: 7,500,000; 76.4% Jewish, 23.6% Arab and other. ECONOMY: Israel has a high standard of living,...
- Research articles 2009-03-15
- Robert Half International Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Andrew Steinerman with Bear Stearns. Go ahead, please. Andrew Steinerman - Bear Stearns Good evening, gentlemen. I am going to need a little more explanation on why Protiviti operating margins didn’t increase sequentially even though there...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Why Employment Might Not Fully Recover Until 2013
- The most recent employment report shows the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, and the broader unemployment rate that accounts for part-time work and discouraged workers at 17.5 percent. With numbers like these, can we expect good news on the employment front anytime soon? Historically, a good rule...
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Toward a QE Exit Strategy in the U.S.
- Erwan Mahe submits:As the exit-strategy debate continues to pick up steam, we must be careful to distinguish between those entailing monetary and fiscal policies, because their relative priorities vary according to the economic zone.This phenomenon was on full display this past weekend at the G20 meeting. At the meeting, the...
- External links 2009-11-09
- Need to know: Young's profits rise ... Unite rental growth ... Sears loss ....
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Public finances: Official figures showed that public sector net borrowing jumped to £11.4 billion, a record high for October. Net debt reached £829.7 billion — £134.6 billion higher than a year ago and equivalent to more than 59 per cent of...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Need to know: ITE profits rise ... Go-Ahead acquisition ... Unite fundraising ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics House prices: Nationwide Building Society said that house prices rose by 0.5 per cent in November, taking the annual increase to 2.7 per cent and climbing for the seventh consecutive month. Factory activity: The purchasing managers' index for manufacturing activity fell...
- News items 2009-12-02
- Asia Stocks Rise, Bonds Fall as Risk Sought
- By Kevin PlumbergHONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks and currencies rose on Monday on bets a surge in the U.S. unemployment rate to a 26-1/2-year high would force policymakers to keep many stimulus measures in place until an economic recovery spread further.In bond markets, however, worries grew about how governments...
- News items 2009-11-08
- Need to know: Coffee; CIT; Orchard; Free trade agreement; Wachovia
- Economics The economy: Official figures show that the British economy is sliding into recession faster than had first been thought. Revised data showed a sharper than expected 0.6 per cent fall in output between July and September — the worst since 1990 and bigger than the 0.5 per cent fall...
- News items 2009-08-07
- If I Were Chancellor...
- For all its vaunted support of the SME sector, can the government help them now, when access to funding and supply chain pressures are constricting their ability to grow? According to the Chartered Management Institute's latest Economic Outlook Survey, 85 per cent of managers think the government...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Need to know: UBS account closures ... BMW decline ... BP peace deal
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics UK manufacturing: British industry suffered a bleak November, with output from factories plummeting by 2.9 per cent in the month to stand 7.4 per cent down on a year earlier, its sharpest annual fall since 1981. Output is back to levels...
- News items 2009-08-07
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