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Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... provider iinet lifted nine cents to $2.45 as it confirmed its intention to buy Canberra-based TransACT for $60 million. Online jobs website business and education services provider Seek was up four cents at $6.02 as it said it expects to post earnings ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... year-on-year changes in retail spending. They're now higher than the pre-GFC boom. An early Merry Christmas to you too! What about jobs? US job creation remains slow and the unemployment rate is still stuck at 9% as at October. If I told you once, I ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... economic reforms being demanded by the European Union. In other news, the US Labor Department said employers advertised more jobs in September than at any other point in the past three years. The seven per cent increase in job openings are a hopeful ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... braced for a Greek confidence vote that could oust the prime minister and trigger fresh eurozone debt turmoil. A mixed US jobs report offered some small signs of improvement, but reminded that high unemployment was well-entrenched in the slowly growing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... inquiry that proposed legislative changes would limit the airline's plans to expand into Asia and, as a result, would cost jobs. Qantas shares were up 3.25 cents, or 2.06 per cent, at $1.608. On Wall Street on Thursday, US stocks shrugged off the eurozone ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... stocks shrugged off more eurozone turmoil to rack up solid gains on Thursday, helped by earnings reports, slightly improved jobs numbers and the European Central Bank's interest rate cut. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 208.43 points ...

ASFA warns against using super to buy homes

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... playing with that pool and how it drives the economy...that will impact on overall returns, and driving the economy drives jobs. "In the GFC when companies could not get access to any loans, they issued capital, which was bought by superannuation funds... ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... Asian shares were mostly higher Monday after France and Germany announced an agreement to support Europe's banks while US jobs data also supplied some unexpected good news. Dealers remained cautious after Wall Street finished last week with a loss and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... early on Saturday morning, Australian time, after US non-farm payrolls data showed the world's largest economy added 103,000 jobs in September, which was better than markets forecasts. However, market sentiment soured after the Fitch agency downgraded ...

Indigenous Australians offered chance to Clime career ladder

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... we can be the poster boy for our industry and used by AES to spread that message then it could lead to a lot of industry jobs for Aboriginals and open new doors for them," said Michael Kloeckner, director, Clime Asset Management. Clime, which only employs ...