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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... Australian share market continued to lose ground in intraday trading with uncertainty over the carbon tax, disappointing US jobs figures and China's surging inflation dragging shares down. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... overseas (and) the oil price is down," CommSec chief economist Craig James said. The drop will come courtesy of disappointing US jobs figures which triggered falls of up to 0.7 per cent on Wall Street indices on Friday. Only 18,000 jobs were created ...

Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... employment report for its opening tempo was 'allegro'. How else could you describe ADP's report that 157,000 workers found jobs in the private sector in June -- more than twice market expectations? How? Tell me how? There was nothing in cyberspace or ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... solid gain in retail sales for the month, while commodities prices rose strongly. Private non-farm businesses added 157,000 jobs in June, more than doubling expectations of about 70,000 jobs. The Australian market was under-performing offshore leads ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... 1,353.22, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 38.64 points (1.36 per cent) to 2,872.66. Stocks jumped on encouraging jobs data from the payrolls firm ADP, its monthly index showing that private non-farm businesses added 157,000 jobs in June, a ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... it's still above the 400K mark that's widely-accepted as the number that'll signal that the US economy would start adding jobs, but it's now starting to head in that direction. It's still early days, and one data point does not a trend make. However ...

China-Gillard tug o' war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... strong Australian dollar -- and also consumers' trepidation over their finances. And it's not that Australians are short of jobs and money - the unemployment rate remained at a low 4.9 per cent in May and household disposable income grew by 8.5 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... jumped 2.13 per cent and Lisbon soared 3.03 per cent. London was also supported by news that Lloyds bank will axe 15,000 more jobs and that the London Stock Exchange is once more a likely takeover target. In response, LBG rocketed to the top of the FTSE ...

Property up, interest rate rises: BIS Shrapnel

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... is capital intensive in remote areas such as Barrow Island far from the capital cities, Zigomanis said the flow-on support jobs would create demand. "The engineers, the accountants, HR people, and the payroll people put a big multiplier effect through ...

Bendigo Wealth expands, restructures with seven senior appointments

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... next year. "It's very exciting," she said. "In terms of the restructure we're just getting the right people in the right jobs to take advantage of the big opportunities ahead." Bendigo Bank has about $4 billion in funds under management.