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Support grows for Asia Funds Passport

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... benefits flowing from enhanced regional capital flows, growing and deepening financial markets and higher levels of employment in Asia's funds management industry. It would also increase the industry's scale and efficiency across the region," said Brogden ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... whom allegedly earned a 'secret' annual salary of US$800,000. Attorney General Edmund Brown subpoenaed hundreds of employment, salary, and contract records in the city in California called Bell. The city's top officials were also subpoenaed. "We have ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... much stronger recovery. Last week's improved consumer confidence report adds to the better-than-expected results on employment, retail sales, ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing reports. The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer confidence index ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... the Fed waited for the October non-farm payrolls report, it might have snipped a bit off the total amount of QE2. US employment rose by 151,000 in October - heaps better than expectations for a 60,000 increase. And heap, heaps better, upward revisions ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... Treasuries." "Our first objective, the first goal that we have, is to meet our mandate to get price stability and maximum employment in the United States. A strong U.S. economy, a recovering economy, is critical not just for Americans but it's also critical ...

UK edges closer to universal pension scheme

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... pension scheme in the UK. Chancellor George Osborne recently gave the green light for the establishment of the National Employment and Savings Trust (NEST), even though the scheme borrows heavily on policy championed by the previous Labour government. ...

QE2 is Gold(ilocks)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... asset-purchase program in light of incoming information and will adjust the program as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability." Yes, you got it! It's data dependent. The caveat implies that the Fed could decide to end the program ...

Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... typically 250 to 300 units in garden communiities or mid high rise buildings - in the country's top 25 markets, where employment levels remain relatively stable and supply of new housing is constrained. Michael Streicker, senior vice president at Sentinel ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... September. Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release their Indices of Economic Activity, and the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations releases its jobs vacancy report. In equities, Woolworths Ltd releases first quarter sales results ...

Dollar rise to boost planner wages

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... Skills Index concluded that competition will heat up even more in the financial services industry, thanks to stable employment opportunities, higher financial market activity and better business conditions.