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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... 4,513.8. NEW YORK - US stocks have fallen flat in late trade, shrugging off early gains on the back of a strong September jobs report and later data showing a pickup in consumer credit-based spending. Early on Friday the Dow and the S&P indices hit five-year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... of Wall Street's estimates. The key event this week comes Friday morning when the Labour Department releases its monthly jobs report. Economists forecast that the unemployment rate inched up to 8.2 per cent in September from 8.1 per cent in August. LONDON ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... though hiring remained flat. Payrolls company ADP's private sector hiring report was better than expected, though at 162,000 jobs in September was still down by 14 per cent from August. Hewlett Packard plunged on concerns about the company's turnaround ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... recession since late 2011, its second downturn since the bursting of a property bubble in 2008 that destroyed millions of jobs and left the banking sector strewn with bad loans. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed as early gains caused by better-than-expected ...

ANZ merges NZ brands

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... Approximately 200 contractors will no longer be required as a result. Around 40 back office permanent staff will also loose their jobs, which ANZ will attempt to relocate within the wider group, a spokesperson said this morning. "Like all businesses ...

Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... LSAPs may have raised the level of output by almost 3 percent and increased private payroll employment by more than 2 million jobs, relative to what otherwise would have occurred." But dear reader Stuart has a point - if QEs 1 & 2 worked, why, do we ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... after the Fed announced its QE3 bond-buying program Thursday and pledged to keep going with stimulus until the economy and jobs market showed solid signs of sustained growth. LONDON - European stock markets and the euro have surged, boosted by US Federal ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... sense but also in assuring the world that he'll do "whatever it takes", in his case, until there is "broad-based growth in jobs and economic activity that generally signal sustained improvement in labour market conditions and declining unemployment". ...

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 ...