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Local jobseekers enjoy strong executive search market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... services sector is leading the rebound in executive searches and that two in five executives are dissatisfied with their current jobs. According to the latest quarterly survey from the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the Asia Pacific ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... spurred the rally. Consumer confidence improved for the third straight month in May as Americans saw a rosier outlook for jobs and businesses, according to a survey released by the Conference Board Tuesday. When markets settled, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Detox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... Spain cut spending on social welfare, raised value-added and other taxes, reduced public investment and reduced civil service jobs by 13,000 per year - those left would be forced to accept a 5 per cent reduction in their wages this year. Then there's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... Friday after Wall Street and European markets lost up to 3.6 per cent in value due to continuing debt concerns and weak US jobs data. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 106 points lower at 4,211 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... Europe even as the continent battles a debt crisis. Stock markets initially pared a fraction of Wednesday's gains on a mixed jobs report which showed new claims for unemployment insurance benefits fell last week for the fourth time in a row. But the ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... Spanish government announced new budget measures to bring its public finances back in order. The "ouch" factors: Civil service jobs to be slashed by 13,000 this year. Civil service pay cut -- by 5 per cent in 2010 and frozen next year. The 2,500 birth ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... recorded across all industries. And even better, revisions to February and March figures added another 121,000 to Americans with jobs. Once the make or break in trading sentiment, Wall Street ignored this last week. And I repeat, at its own risk. Surely ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... concerns about a wider eurozone debt crisis. Earlier, payrolls firm ADP said the US economy created 32,000 private sector jobs in April, better than market expectations. But the positive figures were not enough to calm concerns about the eurozone that ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... efforts to correct Greece's grave fiscal imbalances, make the economy more competitive and, over time, restore growth and jobs," said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. "In addition, the government is taking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... 4,973 points. In economic news on Wednesday, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations releases its jobs vacancy report for April, and Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release their indices of Economic Activity for March. The ...