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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... in equities locally." Mr Potter said market players were looking to the release of US non-farm payrolls data, a key employment indicator, due later in the week. Wall Street finished mixed overnight: the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P500 closed ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... 2015, cuts in retirement and disability pensions, "means-testing" of unemployment benefits and "rationalisation" of employment subsidies. That's the tougher part. Also included in the measures are: "Increased revenues of social security funds and reduction ...

Property up, interest rate rises: BIS Shrapnel

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... from an economy that's led by government spending to an economy that's led by business investment spending and all the employment growth and income growth that comes from it." The research firm also reportedly said it expected interest rate rises that ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... factors that are likely to be temporary." If not? Well, "The Committee... will act as needed to best foster maximum employment..."

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... Committee will monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and will act as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability." This statement says it all. The Fed will go back to the printers if necessary. I believe it would, for ...

Fin Svcs Asian opportunity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... Australian finance professionals being approached by recruiters since the start of 2011 at least five times. Manpower Employment Outlook survey results found that 37 per cent of companies in the finance, insurance and real estate sectors are expected ...

The seventh day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... good. The bad - it was sharply lower than market expectations for the revision to show a 3.0 per cent drop. Australian employment grew by only 7,800 in May - not good for markets expecting a 25,000 addition in headcount. Worse, full-time employment decreased ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... the mid-morning recovery came after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released jobs data that showed total employment rose much less than expected in May. The ABS said Australia's unemployment rate stayed at a two-year low of 4.9 per cent in ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... in his speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on 8 June 2010 (also after a disappointing US employment report): "My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific....The unemployment rate is still ...

Bigger picture, nicer picture

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011