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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... NEW YORK - US stocks have soared after the Federal Reserve announced a new "QE3" bond-buying program focused on boosting jobs and pulling the housing market back to life. After trading flat before the Fed's announcement on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... 9.0% and South Korea 5.4%. And according to the website, "Both exports and imports create employment: one in five Australian jobs is related to trade..." And on this rationale, deteriorating exports and imports destroy employment. Now you won't wonder ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... complete the bad news, the tally for June and July were revised lower by a total of 41,000 heads. Over the last six months, US jobs creation had been well-short of the 250,000 monthly pick up that is needed to bring the unemployment rate lower. The good ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street on Friday closed up on hopes disappointing US jobs data will lead to Federal Reserve economic stimulus measures. At 0740 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... equities news is expected. The Australian sharemarket on Thursday closed higher on the back of positive corporate news and jobs figures, and hopes for a resolution to Europe's debt crisis. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 34.1 points, or 0.8 per cent ...

10,000 finance jobs slashed since GFC

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... don't have job security, or access to pay increases, Shingles said. New research shows more than 10 000 Australian finance jobs have been cut since the global financial crisis, 6,294 of which can be attributed to off-shoring. In 2012, ANZ off-shored ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... catalysts, regional investors took a wait-and-see approach with the ECB meeting on Thursday as well as closely watched US jobs figures due on Friday. Tokyo on Tuesday slipped 0.10 per cent, or 8.38 points, to 8,775.51, Sydney fell 0.61 per cent, or 26.2 ...

So where's the QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... the unemployment rate had fallen to 8.3 percent from its cyclical peak of 10 percent and payrolls had risen by 4 million jobs from their low point. And despite periodic concerns about deflation risks, on the one hand, and repeated warnings that excessive ...

ANZ CEO sells shares to fund debt, tax

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... ordinary shares, said ANZ. ANZ has frozen the salary of its top executives and earlier this year announced plans to cut 1,000 jobs in 2012 in an effort to protect profits. ANZ recently posted an un-audited underlying profit for the nine-month period ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... around one in four Australians (26%) work in an organisation that has outsourced, restructured, grown, expanded or downsized jobs in the last 12 months. This is slightly higher than developed recessionary countries where 23% of employees have experienced ...