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| | | ... the morning session. Market indices also reacted positively to the latest jobs figures, which showed Australia's unemployment rate was 5.1 per cent in August, beating market expectations. Making news on Thursday, the competition regulator ACCC said it ... |
| | | | ... Especially not when many consider his 2009 US$787 billion stimulus package made very little bang for the buck - the unemployment rate remains at near 10 per cent - and was only effective in widening America's budget deficit. Whether Obama ultimately ... |
| | | | ... hours is again picking up. Overtime hours increased to 3.9 hours in August from 3.8 hours in the previous month. The unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6 per cent in August from 9.5 per cent in July. This is another piece of good news indicating that Americans ... |
| | | | ... stats just a day away. Financial markets expect that America lost a further 100,000 jobs in August and the for the unemployment rate to tick up to 9.6 per cent from 9.5 per cent in July. However, they expect an addition of 30,000 private sector positions ... |
| | | | ... earnings growth for the banking sector as bad debts normalise," Hershan said, pointing to Australia's comparatively low unemployment levels. For similar reasons, Hershan dismissed suggestions the residential property market could create headwinds for ... |
| | | | ... benefits fell last week after three straight weekly increases. The gains evaporated by mid-morning as concerns about unemployment and other woes plaguing the US returned. Australian companies continued to post their earnings on Friday as the reporting ... |
| | | | ... contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said losses on global markets in response to the US unemployment figures had dragged the local market lower on Friday. But Wall Street had overreacted to the news, he said. "I think ... |
| | | | ... tumbled on Thursday as sentiment was dampened by US data showing an unexpected jump in the weekly initial claims for unemployment benefits, dampening recovery hopes. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed 91.58 points lower, by 1.73 per cent ... |
| | | | ... to the next. Last night the trifecta of bad numbers say sell. And so they sold - big time. One-fecta. US initial unemployment claims rose by 12,000 to 500,000 in the week ended 14 August. This was higher than market expectations for a decline to 478,000 ... |
| | | | ... economies on both sides of the Atlantic faced with the dual threats of rising debt and deficits, and stubbornly high unemployment, economists and central bankers are divided as to whether the escalating prices of the late 1970's or a Japanese-style deflationary ... |
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