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(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... a free market workers would always be willing to lower their wages to a level where employers could profitably offer them jobs" (Wikipedia). That's fine. But that's also so 19th century before the wages of the CEO was tied to company profitability and ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... Telstra as well is back even though its (earnings) result was choppy," Mr Lucas said. With the earnings season in full swing, jobs advertising website SEEK was the standout performer among the top 100 stocks, after a 65 per cent rise in half year profit ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... July 2003. The employment numbers were even more disappointing, with 3,700 heads taken off the payrolls in January (15,000 jobs added expected). Worst still, a large drop in full time positions (down 7,100) during the month accounted for the decline. ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... forward guidance. "The first phase of guidance gave businesses confidence that bank rate would not be raised at least until jobs, incomes and spending were growing at sustainable rates." But what happened to the Monetary Policy Council (MPC) would start ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... continue predecessor Ben Bernanke's plan to wind down the Fed's bond-buying gradually and keep interest rates low until the jobs market improves significantly. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... only "a notable change in the outlook" could change that.... and the outlook is good. There is "broad improvement" in the US jobs market and that the current volatility in emerging markets "... do not pose a substantial risk to the U.S. economic outlook." ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
The Australian share market has opened slightly weaker after the loss of manufacturing jobs and mixed earnings reports impacted investor confidence. Australian shares did not follow strong leads from Wall Street as investors took their cues from local ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... LONDON - European stocks ended moderately mixed on Monday, after solid gains ahead of the weekend despite poorly-received US jobs data. The Swiss stock market and franc held up after a shock vote in favour of Switzerland restricting immigration with ...

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 ...