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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... points. In economic news on Wednesday, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations releases its skilled jobs vacancies report for January. The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts a tender for $500 million of March 2019 ...

End game II

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... also make it easier for US companies to seek import duties to compensate for the undervalued currency. Just think of all the jobs we could generate - and the boost this would have on the economy - if we could sell more than we buy! Oh, yes! Yes! Not ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... that China's undervalued currency is costing America more than US$200 billion per annum in lost growth and around 1 million jobs. Bomb the renminbi now! The World Bank and the IMF are using a different tact. The World Bank "advices" that a stronger renminbi ...

Don't know where to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... half of the 2 per cent increase it achieved the week before. But last week was punctuated by the better than expected US jobs report which pushed the S&P 500 index to close 1.4 per cent higher on the day. But it's the same jobs report that perhaps created ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... one major beneficiary. Today, we'll get an update of the country's employment stats. Betting is for a 15,000 addition in jobs in February and for the jobless rate to remain stuck at 5.3 per cent. No need to cross your fingers. The numbers may surprise ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... would prompt businesses to restock inventories. With little economic data released since last week's better-than-expected jobs report, investors haven't been making big moves. But readings on weekly jobless claims, retail sales and consumer sentiment ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... month, the jobless rate was 7.6 per cent. Last year, it was 4.8 per cent. For sure this is bad news because of the loss of jobs' flow-on effect on spending, sales, profits and ultimately economic growth. What could be worse? What's worse are 'experts' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... 2,332.21 points. LONDON - European stocks put in a poor performance on Monday as a rally brought on by better-than-expected US jobs data petered out due to uncertainty about Europe's economic outlook. The FTSE 100 index rose 6.96 points, or 0.12 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... perfect storm for rising share markets," he said. "We had a strong lead out of the US on the back of some better than expected jobs numbers. "We've seen BHP secure 200 tonnes of their coking coal for the quarter, and we've had some corporate activity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... 4,773.4 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks jumped on Friday after the government reported that US companies shed fewer jobs than expected in February, with the unemployment rate holding steady from the previous month. The Dow Jones industrial average ...