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Countplus misses profit guidance

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... franchisees," the statement said. According to the announcement, the company's results were "impacted by the business conditions for the small business sector across the country and the sale of a major poor performing business and the restructuring of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... time. "We're caught in a conflict with consumer confidence falling away slightly in the most recent week but business conditions and confidence improving," CMC Markets analyst Michael McCarthy said. "The net result is a little bit of stasis in the market." ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... January to 56.7 this month.A According to Markit, this is "the fastest overall improvement in U.S. manufacturing business conditions since May 2010." To be sure, other indicators - weekly jobless claims, leading index - also suggested that the going ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... more, employment is a lagging indicator. Upbeat Australian stats - retail spending, building approvals, NAB business conditions survey, house prices - reported recently points to improvement in the labour market sometime probably by the second half of ...

Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... Employment actuals come in less than predictions, lower 'em rates now. The latest round of soft data releases - business conditions, consumer sentiment, job ads, Ford Motors job cuts announcement - certainly give meat to predictions for more job losses ...

ANZ reports 6.2% cash profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... customer base with in-force premiums and funds under management both rising. However, Smith warned that the business conditions would remain challenging through 2013. "In International and Institutional Banking, expenses were well controlled however ...

Businesses in for tougher times: Debt collector

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Business conditions for Australian companies are much worse than currently being reported with tougher times ahead, warns debt collector Prushka. Prushka, one of Australia's largest debt collectors, has seen a worrying increase in the proportion of ...

The twain could not meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... enough to warrant Fed action. A fact confirmed by the Fed's own survey. In its latest Beige Book survey of business conditions, the Fed found the economy expanded at a "modest to moderate" pace in June and early July, "manufacturing activity continued ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... cent to 11,501 units in March. The National Australia Bank (NAB) Business Survey, released on Monday, showed business conditions fell three index points to zero in April. The ANZ Job Ads data for April is also due out later on Monday. In equities news ...

SFG to close competitive gap

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... the middle as contenders for the space are gradually swallowed by the larger players or suffer from adverse business conditions. "That's an unusual industry structure for competition," Fenning said. "You would normally want to see half a dozen players ...