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Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... markets have mostly risen as investors shrugged off Greece's default, with Tokyo lifted by an upbeat survey on business confidence, but Shanghai's volatile run continued, plunging more than five per cent. The euro edged down against the US dollar after ...

Better than the big boys

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... disease" and you don't want to read no more, no more, no more. But I digress. It's May's big bounce in Australian business confidence and conditions, helped delivered by Smokin' Joe before his ailment recurred. Here are the highlights from the source ...

Expect no pay rises this year: report

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... salaries for range of roles in business centres all over the world, Roberts Walters said that despite returning business confidence, salaries are projected to remain flat in the financial service sector. In Sydney, salaries for senior-level roles decreased ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... faster, slower or nevermore. The key to this is whether last night's Budget succeeds in reversing consumer and business confidence.

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... the impact of his own decisions on the budget which is spending up and tax up. The impact of his words on business confidence is that it is lower now than after the election because of his decisions."

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... survey that the domestic bourse had to react to, then again, the April update was hardly earth-shattering -- business confidence was unchanged at plus 3 in April and "Business conditions retraced some - but not all of the gains reported in March" (NAB). ...

Financial services SMEs top confidence survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... productivity. Unfortunately, general pessimism about the economy and government initiatives continues to stifle their business confidence," Bibby Financial Services Australia and New Zealand managing director Mark Cleaver said. "The Federal Government ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... meeting, nothing much has changed. Au contraire, some have even improved - unemployment rate, retail spending, business confidence and business conditions, among others. These are guideposts that argue that if the RBA didn't cut last month and the month ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Frankfurt's benchmark DAX 30 index closed up 0.74 per cent at 11,810.45 points, helped by data showing German business confidence at a 10-month high. In Greece, the Athex index finished 3.39 per cent higher after earlier gains on Friday of over four ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... managers' index (PMI) surveys. The March surveys' headlines say it all: UK Manufacturing PMI hits 8-month high Business confidence at highest level for just over nine years, despite growth slowdown in March [construction PMI] UK services growth accelerates ...