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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... strategist Stan Shamu said the market was taking its lead from the US, where the major indices shrugged off disappointing jobs numbers to finish more than one per cent higher on Friday. Mr Shamu said traders were starting to feel more positive after ...

Excuses, excuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
Have Wall Streeters' gone loco? This immediately came to mind when I saw Wall Street's reaction to the disappointing US jobs report for, more often than not, disappointment does not get a rise out of Wall Street. Perhaps it was a not an often day for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street despite disappointing US jobs data. At 0845 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 37 points at 5,159. The US Labor Department said the economy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... Ordinaries index was up 58.7 points, or 1.15 per cent, at 5,147.4. NEW YORK - US stocks surged amid optimism that the January jobs market report will point to firm economic growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 188.30 points (1.22 per cent) ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Wall Street having dipped on softer-than-expected payrolls data. The world's biggest economy added 175,000 private-sector jobs in January, slowing from the 227,000 increase in December, payrolls firm ADP reported. Analysts had forecast the addition of ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... you ignore that other report that points in the other direction. Automatic Data Processing reported 175,000 private sector jobs were created in January, down from 238K in the previous month and lower than expectations for a 193K print. It's that vortex... ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Australian market looks set to open higher, despite a negative lead from Wall Street which fell following disappointing US jobs data. At 0900 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 14 points at 5,032. The US economy added ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... decision not to grant its parent company, SPC Ardmona, the $25 million it requested to continue production and provide more jobs. The major banks were mixed. Commonwealth Bank was up 12 cents at $74.32 and National Australia Bank had shed three cents ...

Aussie employment outlook 'slightly dismal': Sloan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... medium-term outlook for the Australian labour market is slightly dismal." But fellow-speaker Professor Rodney Maddock said jobs in construction - an industry which should play a major role in the transition to a non-mining led economy - may pick up as ...

Global economy on a knife edge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014