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Eyes on the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... to rise to 4.3 percent. This forecast represents a softening from June's 29.8K gain in employment and 4.2 percent jobless rate and follows the latest string of weak economic indicators. Negative news on retail sales, consumer sentiment and housing prices ...

Who's next to confess?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... picking up a little steam,' Today, markets will receive updates on Japanese employment and retail sales. Japan's jobless rate is expected to remain at 4.0 percent in June and the job-to-applicants ratio is expected to fall to 0.91 in the same month from ...

This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... June's level of 50.2. Japan: The employment report, out on Tuesday, will kick things off in Japan. The country's jobless rate is expected to remain at 4.0 percent in June and the job-to-applicants ratio is expected to fall to 0.91 in the same month from ...

This Week's Market Movers (7-11 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... jobs were lost but that the unemployment rate steadied at 4.3 per cent in May. While Australia's seasonally adjusted jobless rate remains low by historical standards, the trend unemployment rate series has started to turn up. Pressure on company profits ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... slid 2.13 per cent, as investors sold stocks across the board after record oil prices and the biggest jump in the US jobless rate in 22 years revived worries about the economic outlook. The benchmark Nikkei shed 308.06 points to 14,181.38, the lowest ...

Record jobless rate not feeding a wage spiral

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
The lowest jobless rate in more than three decades is not producing a wage rise spiral, a report shows. Total pay rates, which include bonuses and overtime, increased by 7.5 per cent in the year to May, the Melbourne Institute quarterly wages report ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... The unemployment number probably put a rate rise back on the agenda so that's negative as well," Mr Betts said. The jobless rate dropped to a 33-year low in February of 4.0 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today. At 1203 AEDT, ANZ had ...

Economic round-up: Rescheduling retirement

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
While jobless figures are expected to fall to another record low, there are interesting anomalies in the job market with full-time positions and participation of older workers both increasing. Bets are on that our jobless figures will have a three in ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Flying in the face of a 4.5 per cent jobless rate, strong currency and figures showing 5.5 per cent of household finances have improved in the last month, interest rate uncertainty may account for the latest figures in consumer confidence dipping to ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
... keep its interest rate at its record high 7.25 per cent. The bank feel inflationary pressure has been contained and jobless rate fell to a record low of 3.6 per cent.