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WA senator appointed super shadow minister

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... last year. He was also a member of the opposition shadow ministry from the end of last year and shadow minister for employment participation, apprenticeships and training from last December. Cormann has a background in law. Industry association ASFA ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... from agency debt and mortgage-back securities into long-term Treasuries because "...the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months." The same goes for the Bank of Japan -- maybe worse. The BOJ also kept rates on hold at 0.1 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... is due to list on the Australian Securities Exchange. On Thursday, the local market closed higher, buoyed by strong employment figures and a better performance in offshore markets. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 45 points, or 0.99 per cent ...

CERTITUDE appoints head of distrib

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... active managed product suite to be launched in the coming years. "This appointment really reflects two aspects, both an employment and strategic direction for CERTITUDE which is to deliver relationships with high net worth investors and focus on institutional ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... scheduled to release labour force data for August at 1130 AEST. A median of 11 economists surveyed by AAP forecast total employment to have risen by 30,000 in August, with the jobless rate falling 0.1 percentage points to 5.2 per cent. Reserve Bank of ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... help in the service industry rose to 2.1 million in August - the highest since December 2008. And overall, temporary employment has been on the up and up since October 2009 (except for a slight dip of 900 positions in July). As activity picks up, many ...

NGS Super and Cuesuper to merge

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... members will automatically transition to their new arrangements within NGS Super. Cuesuper employees will continue their employment in the merged entity, while two current Cuesuper board representatives will serve on the NGS Super board for at least ...

One report, two spins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... intuitively true. But isn't it also true that higher spending begets higher sales begets higher profits begets higher employment begets higher aggregate income? Isn't the worry that US consumers - the ones that make up 70 per cent of the economy - would ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... guard against disinflation. We do." Big Ben reviewed the economic outlook. "... the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed somewhat in recent months, in part because of slower-than-expected growth in consumer spending, as well as continued ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... they picked one phrase and milked it to high heavens to feed the fear. Back then, "the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months" was the catchphrase of the day. Not one bothered to print the Fed's conclusion that it "will ...