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Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... new investment in roads, rail, ports and energy and water production. This partnership will help to create millions of new jobs." Hockey predicted that over the next decade there would be a "massive increase" in demand for private funding of infrastructure ...

Unbelievably beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... gain to headcount - it got more than that. Twice? Thrice? Four times? The ABS reported that the economy generated 121,000 jobs last month. Work out the maths and that equates to eight times more than consensus estimates. Could it be a case of fat finger? ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... S&P 500 tacked on 7.34 (0.37 per cent) to 1,995.78. Locally, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release jobs figures for August and, in equities news, Myer is set to post its FY2014 financial results. The Australian share market has ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... at the Jackson Hole or... does it? Think I'm gonna go with Janet on this one. More so given the weekend's disappointing US jobs numbers - while the unemployment rate eased to 6.1% in August from 6.2% in July, employment increased by only 142K (expectations ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... since the height of the financial crisis in October 2008. The greenback picked up in New York after Friday's disappointing US jobs data was put into perspective by another round of weak Japanese growth figures and anaemic Chinese trade statistics. WELLINGTON ...

Big four fail in cross-selling retail super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... obviously given impetus to the strength of the industry funds whose gains appear to a large extent to come from people switching jobs," he added. Morris predicted that "competition between banks and their specialist competitors in superannuation is likely ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... cents, or 12.1 per cent, down at $5.36 at 1030 AEST. Fuel supplier Caltex's shares were up after it said it would cut 350 jobs in a restructure and maintained first half net profit, which was up one per cent to $173 million. The banks were up, with ANZ ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... in the labor market, and the phenomenon of "polarization"--that is, the reduction in the relative number of middle-skill jobs." Deputy Bank of England governor Ben Broadbent adds: The output data are no longer sufficient statistics for inflationary pressure ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... down 10 points at 5,599. Wall Street stocks closed mostly lower on Friday night following a cautious appraisal of the US jobs market by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and increased tensions over Ukraine at the Jackson Hole summit of central bankers. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... Street stocks have finished mostly higher as US Federal Reserve minutes showed rising debate over recent improvements in the jobs market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 59.54 points (0.35 per cent) to 16,979.13. The broad-based S&P 500 gained ...