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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... days. The market put up modest gains as many traders held their positions and looked toward the Labor Department's employment report on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 33 points. On Monday, the blue chips jumped 115 points and the Standard ...

Planners lose staff but not for long

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... retain workers by choosing to lower their hours or wages. Only 9.5 per cent said they didn't make any cut backs on employment during that time period - in fact these same people have been boosting their staff numbers. Overall, around 93 respondents or ...

Gen-Y in a bottle

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... mortgage or start earning a high salary. "Wealth through time will naturally transfer to this generation, as well as employment, and financial institutions need to consider how to serve these customers better," he said. According to the Australian Bureau ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... a full quarter, Bloomberg data going back to 1993 show." This is good. This would underpin business investment and employment going forward - even if the remaining 25 per cent now reports very disappointing earnings. Yet this also brings doubt in every ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... about the rising rate of unemployment - now at a 26-year high of 9.5 per cent and rising? What about it? Let me repeat, employment along business inventories, are lagging indicators. They show what businesses have been doing to adjust to the new reality ...

Super jobs bonanza

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... diminished savings. Administration, client services and call centre staff are most in demand, although the hike in employment opportunities also extends to investment professionals. "It's probably the least surprising [in job opportunities growth] because ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... Sydney. The Australian share market closed flat on Thursday for the second consecutive day, as better than expected employment figures helped stocks rebound from early losses. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 4.6 points, or 0.12 per cent, lower at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... Association Australian Performance of Construction Index for June also is due, and the Manpower/Melbourne Institute employment report for July also is scheduled for release. On Monday, the Australian share market closed lower dragged down by weakness ...

QSuper upgrades member services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... to strong demand from members who were previously unable to continue employer contributions to QSuper after leaving employment in the Queensland Government. "We regularly receive calls from members wanting to know if their non-Queensland Government employer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... LONDON - Leading European stock exchanges showed few signs of life in sluggish trade still affected by disappointing US employment figures from the previous day. The London FTSE 100 index edged up 2.01 points or 0.05 per cent to end the week at 4,236.28 ...