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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... Thursday. Total employment rose by 54,600 to 11.416 million in the month, seasonally adjusted. "The stronger-than-expected jobs numbers would be helping things but the rally started before that," he said. In the US overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... festive was such that not even a disappointing US non-farm payrolls report spoiled their mood. America added only 39,000 jobs in November -- well below market expectations for an addition of 145,000 - and the unemployment rate skipped a couple of notches ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... gain it calculated last month. The latest ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors survey showed that private US companies added 93,000 jobs in November - the largest increase since November 2007 and more than the expected 70K increase. Better still, the previous ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... just won't work. I've said this many times before. Reduce debt by raising taxes and cutting government spending (welfare, jobs) only leads to less jobs, less spending, less economic growth, less government revenues - plus protests and riots on the side. ...

Confidence will return to Ireland: Govt

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
The Irish Government's four-year financial recovery plan is designed to restore confidence and create more jobs, according to the minister for enterprise, trade and innovation, Batt O'Keeffe. The plan underpins the work of the job creation and research ...

AustralianSuper to hit $110bn by 2020

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... solid fund portability strategy. "It's something we're trying to solve now - how people can take us with them to their new jobs easier," he said. But to achieve the $110 billion FUM target, AustralianSuper will need to grow around 13 per cent per annum ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... stimulate the economy and get people spending so they can look after their mortgage... give everyone $1 million." As for jobs. The October private non-farm payrolls report showed employed Americans earned US$779.64 weekly. This translates to a total ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... That takes care of America's problem with the threat of deflation and the millions of Americans who are still looking for jobs. Maybe... The US$600 billion QE2 package has lifted commodity prices and is now raising inflation expectations. Well done! ...

HOSTPLUS unveils new TV ads

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... million Australians who are already with HOSTPLUS, and literally asks those members to 'choose HOSTPLUS' whenever they change jobs," he said.

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... for a 49.9 print - from 48.6 in the previous month. Good yes. But not good enough. Americans remained anxious about their jobs and worried about their income, the details of the report showed. But seemingly nobody cared, "not a creature was stirring ...