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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street's Dow and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs on good jobs figures. At 0748 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,360. The Dow closed just ...

FPA Future2 award goes to Kathy Havers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Northern Territory. She assisted with the purchase of a processing plant for native Northern Territory food which has created jobs for 200 indigenous people - jobs that were not otherwise available in their community. Kathy also conducts talks about ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... current policies over the coming 5 years. This is over US$2 trillion more in real terms and will lead to significant additional jobs." Nearly a year on and we have China's economy on the slow lane, the eurozone in a parking lot (latest figures show real ...

Link Group plans to open Melbourne office

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) annual conference, he said Link Group also hopes to offer jobs to those currently employed at Superpartners. "We will be planning a facility in Melbourne that pretty much duplicates our own ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 indices edged to fresh records after the US economy added 214,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate fell.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... 5,550. The Dow gained 0.11 per cent to 17,573.93, while the S&P 500 edged up 0.03 per cent to 2,031.92. But the US' October jobs growth came in below the 235,000 expected by analysts, although, the Labor Department revised upward by a total of 31,000 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... international markets after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi signalled possible further stimulus measures and positive US jobs figures. At 0834 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 26 points at 5,521. In local ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... goods and services data. The ABS is due to announce its revised methodology for working out the seasonal adjustment of the jobs figures. Also due out are the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence and the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations surveys. ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... don't want to spend because of weak domestic spending. Consumer spending is weak because consumers are worried about their jobs (they might be the next cost to be cut) - particularly given headlines of rising unemployment, 6.1% in September from 5.7% ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... know, are infrastructure projects free of risk. They're certainly not. However, well executed infrastructure projects create jobs and drive long term profit productivity."