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Veritate $1m payment not linked to Sunsuper investment

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... and for services provided to "Sunsuper Investments" - was paid to Veritate, a shelf company owned by Ross Daley, a former Labor Party staffer. The investigation found that not only was there no direct links between Sunsuper's investments into Trinity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... (GDP) was better than expected by analysts, who had forecast a revision to an annualised 1.5 per cent pace of decline. The Labor Department reported separately that the seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims fell to 570,000 in the week ending August ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... director Lucinda Chan said. "The market has already run hard, but you can't stop the momentum at the moment." On Friday, the US Labor Department said the country's unemployment rate unexpectedly had dipped to 9.4 per cent, its first decline in 15 months. ...

Dead cat bouncers dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... Bureau of Statistics reported that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.8 per cent in July from June. In the US, the Labor Department announced a dip in the jobless rate to 9.4 per cent in July - the lowest since August last year - from 9.5 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... rocketed 14 per cent in just 16 days. The market put up modest gains as many traders held their positions and looked toward the Labor Department's employment report on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 33 points. On Monday, the blue chips ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... Investors looked past data on consumer inflation which appeared to be skewed by a temporary surge in energy prices. The Labor Department said its consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.7 per cent in June. The market's rally gathered momentum after the Federal ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... closed on Wednesday, kicking off the second-quarter earnings season. Investors were encouraged also by a report from the Labor Department showing that the number of initial jobless benefits claims fell last week to 565,000 - the lowest level since early ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... cent, to 3875.2 points. NEW YORK - A dour report on job losses in the United States in June sent stocks sharply lower. The Labor Department reported that US employers shed 467,000 jobs in June, pushing the unemployment rate to a fresh 26-year high of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... month and quarter on an upbeat note, as an encouraging report on the US manufacturing sector helped offset weak news on the labor market. The market appeared to focus on a report showing signs of improvement in the US manufacturing sector in June even ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Short-lived speculation that former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello was about to be appointed by the Labor government to a leading position in running the Future Fund shows the fund is still poorly understood, three years after its launch. Rumours ...