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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... Department on Friday will report 500,000 non-farm jobs were created last month, up from 290,000 in April, and the unemployment rate slipped a notch to 9.8 per cent from 9.9 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets closed higher on Thursday, with London's ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... has fallen 7.9 per cent in the month of May alone. Not because economic fundamentals in Australia are shoddy: The unemployment rate was at 5.4 per cent in April, gross company operating profits increased by 3.9 per cent in the first quarter - the biggest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... Labor Department's latest employment report added to worries about the US economy. The department said new claims for unemployment benefits rose by 25,000 to 471,000, their largest amount in three months. That came as an unpleasant surprise to investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... publishes its survey of consumer inflationary expectations for May and, with Westpac, also its Survey of Consumer Unemployment Expectations, also for May. Australian Office of Financial Management chief executive Neil Hyden addresses an Australian Business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... Stock markets initially pared a fraction of Wednesday's gains on a mixed jobs report which showed new claims for unemployment insurance benefits fell last week for the fourth time in a row. But the report also reaffirmed the slow pace of the economic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... said news that Spain planned to cut its deficit and local employment figures had supported the market. Australia's unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 5.4 per cent in April, compared with an upwardly revised 5.4 per cent in March, the Australian ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... what does this mean for Spain? The short answer is... pain. There'll be at least 13,000 more employees added to the unemployment stats. At last count, the country's unemployment rate was running at 20 per cent. More unemployed means less consumer spending ...

Do nothing budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... expand by 3.25 per cent in fiscal year 2010/11 and 4 per cent the next after growing by 2 per cent this year. The unemployment rate is forecasts to decline from 5.25 per cent this year to 5 per cent the next and 4.75 per cent in 2011/12. Inflation is ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... cent in the previous month. Now I'm pushing it, you say. Not really. Because if you look deeper, the rise in the unemployment rate was due to the increase in the number of Americans looking for jobs, i.e., discouraged job seekers are now returning to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... On Wall Street overnight, stocks closed higher, after another series of upbeat earnings reports and a reading on unemployment that provided more evidence of an improving economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index closed up 1.11 per cent, while the ...

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