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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... Europe, before snapping back in the final hour. The US non-farm payrolls report, which showed the US economy lost 20,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate fell to 9.7 per cent, also presented a muddled picture on the troubled labour sector. ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... overnight, the Dow flirted below the 10,000 point mark and the VIX index spiked by 26 per cent on indications that America's jobs market may be worsening. Europe had its own bad day as renewed fears about the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain - ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... rising debt levels in some eurozone member states became more acute and US data offered scant hope for a recovery in the jobs market there. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index plunged 113.84 points, or 2.17 per cent, to 5,139.31 points. FRANKFURT - The ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... showing that the global recovery is progressing. In time, continued gains in the manufacturing economy will filter through to jobs, kick start consumer spending, raise government revenues and reduce welfare spending and narrow budget deficits. It's such ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... employees large bonuses while many of their bros are suffering foreclosures on their homes and/or unable to find suitable jobs. On second thought, never mind suitable, they could not find jobs period. Perhaps to reclaim the moral high ground and of course ...

Tax breaks no enough: seniors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
It would take more than tax breaks to help baby boomers stay in the workforce beyond the average retirement age, argues an industry body. Michael O'Neill, chief executive at National Seniors, welcomed head of Treasury, Ken Henry's, proposal for tax ...

Finance jobs to shine in 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Salaries are expected to rise, and bonuses are on the cards for financial services professionals in Sydney this year, according to latest figures from Morgan McKinley. According to the Morgan McKinley 2010 Salary Survey, over 40 per cent of financial ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... US supports this. The unemployment rate remains at double-digits -- looked at another way, 6.9 million workers lost their jobs last year. Jobless claims have again risen. And financial markets were surprised that US consumer confidence and retail spending ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... caused by a drop in the participation rate like the one that kept the US jobless rate unchanged at 10 per cent in December. Jobs were actually created - all 35,200 of them! This was a big surprise for the consensus that expected only 10,000 jobs to be ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... it." Certainly (or shall we say, hopefully), Big Ben won't! At least, not until substantial inroads are made towards the jobs market. Early in the New Year, I've been reading about "expert" predictions for the coming year. And you guessed it - their ...