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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... price index futures contract was down 23 points at 5,117. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases September labour force data at 1130 AEDT on Thursday, with economists expecting the unemployment rate to remain at 5.8 per cent. In other economic ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... analyst Juliette Saly said the Australian market was opening cautiously on Thursday as investors awaited official labour force data for August, where economists are expecting the jobless rate to hit a four-year high of 5.8 per cent, from 5.7 per cent. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... analyst Juliette Saly said the Australian market was opening cautiously on Thursday as investors awaited official labour force data for August, where economists are expecting the jobless rate to hit a four-year high of 5.8 per cent, from 5.7 per cent. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... contract was up 12 points at 5,243. In economic news on Thursday, the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases labour force data for August. In equities news, Myer Holdings posts full year results and Sigma Pharmaceuticals first half results. Meanwhile ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... contract was down nine points at 4957. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force figures for July. Wang Jiahua, executive vice chairman of China Mining Association, is scheduled to speak at the Melbourne ...

Self-education cap to harm senior workers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... Ageing Centre, early retirement has a detrimental effect on the Australian economy because it reduces the size of the labour force and makes employers forego the skills and knowledge of mature age people, their substantial contributions to productivity ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... the Australian dollar. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release labour force data for June. The NAB June quarter Australian residential property survey is also due out. In equities news, Arrium mining ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... prices and mining stocks offsets gains in other sectors. US stocks rose about one per cent after better-than-expected labour force data on Friday showed more jobs were created than expected in June. While the Australian market usually follows Wall Street ...

On austerity, growth and expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... jobs numbers surprised way below - four times less - than expected. Never mind that a broader look at the Australian Labour Force report shows that on average more jobs are being created one average so far this year (17K) than last year (12.5K) and the ...

Austock Group company secretary resigns

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... into the life insurance division of the company. "After we sold our broking business, we are looking to reduce our labour force, re-aligning jobs and putting more effort into our life insurance offering" he said. Austock Group independent non-executive ...