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Insurance industry on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... insurance industry is hiring aggressively as distribution strategies ramp up - but the number of asset management and advice jobs continue to contract following falling employer confidence and market corrections. According to the latest Hiring Trends ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... rally in the resources sector and hopes the US Federal Reserve could provide more stimulus to the economy following weak jobs figures. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 10.1 points higher, or 0.22 per cent, at 4,576.2 points, while the ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... The numbers. Overall employment fell by 131,000 in July. This is greater than consensus expectations for a loss of 125,000 jobs and follows a revised 221K reduction in the previous month - nearly double the initial estimate of a 125K fall. The government ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... news tell the story of selling on Wall Street because of -- according to The Age - " A surprisingly poor signal on the US jobs market" and US "monthly retail sales reports showed shoppers remain skittish about spending as hiring remains scarce". It referred ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... July - more than forecasts for a 30,000 gain. Even better, the previous month's number was adjusted higher by 6,000 more jobs. More, July marked the sixth consecutive month of increase in private payrolls. Ahhh... but here the bears have something to ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... Street. Reports out overnight were mostly positive but these did not stop profit-taking on The Street. Good news on the US jobs front... but not good enough. Initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped by 11,000 in the week ended July 24 to 457,000 ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... Bernanke said that the economic outlook is "unusually uncertain", I say it's usually uncertain. Otherwise there'll be no jobs for financial market economists like me.

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... underlying outlook for the US labour market? The answer is contained in two letters - N and O. US employment is improving but jobs are not growing fast enough. This series hops, jumps and skips from one week to another. The less volatile four-week moving ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... disappointing US data, notably a surprising erosion in US consumer confidence. A report on Friday that the US economy had lost jobs in June for the first time this year added further tension. A fall in the jobless rate to 9.5 per cent of the workforce ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... US is headed for a double-dip. Non-farm payrolls fell by 125,000 in June -- worse than expectations for a loss of 110,000 jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 per cent but this is because of reduced participation because many Americans gave up looking ...