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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... 10,500 points since January 20, while the Nasdaq ended at its highest level since early September 2008. Figures from the US Labor Department showed the world's largest economy lost 36,000 jobs in February, with the unemployment rate steady at 9.7 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... dividend by 11 per cent. The drop in home sales followed a report on jobless benefits claims that had raised hopes about the Labor Department's monthly payroll report due out Friday. Initial jobless claims dipped last week after two straight weeks of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... Associates offered to buy the 91.5 per cent of software maker Novell Inc that it doesn't already own. Separately, a report on the labor market didn't come in below expectations. Payroll company ADP said employers cut 20,000 jobs last month, matching ...

Market Wrap - Mid-Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... 29 cents to $69.69. Wall Street stocks fell on Thursday as sentiment took a hit from data showing a weaker-than-expected labor market after global markets were unsettled by fiscal woes in Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 53.13 points, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks fell on Thursday as sentiment took a hit from data showing a weaker-than-expected labor market after global markets were unsettled by fiscal woes in Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 52.45 points (0.51 ...

QIC taps lifecycle strategies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... retirement income. He was the only academic invited to present at the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor Joint Hearing on target date funds in June 2009. Joining Drew at QIC to work on this initiative will be Evan Reedman ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... if push comes to shove. Now for the American labour market. There was something for everyone in the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Something for the bears. US non-farm payrolls fell 20,000 in January - expectations were for a 15,000 gain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... materials stocks. The S&P report was yet another worry for investors who have been focused on politics, not the economy. The Labor Department said weekly jobless claims fell by less than expected last week and the Commerce Department reported that durable ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... companies. The market was mixed earlier as good earnings news was tempered by an unexpected jump in initial jobless claims. The Labor Department said workers filing for unemployment benefits for the first time rose by 36,000 to 482,000 last week. Economists ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... ex-Opposition leader Brendan Nelson declared it a "tax and spend" budget while the next ex-Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull called Labor the "Guilty Party" as he attacked its "reckless borrowing and spending" in response to the 2009 budget. The overriding ...