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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... price index futures contract was 36 points higher at 4298 on a volume of 13,490 contracts. "We had the better than expected jobs numbers in the US on Friday and, if nothing else, it shows that things have stabilised," Macquarie Private Wealth associate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... per cent, at 4303.1. NEW YORK - US stocks surged on Friday to their highest levels of the year after a much-awaited July jobs report was better than expected, signaling a likely turnaround in the recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average vaulted 113.81 ...

Dead cat bouncers dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... workers giving up the job search in July. Having said that, there were more positives contained in the already positive US jobs report. The average work week - a good leading indicator of future employment (working time needs to rise first before additional ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... delivered on Thursday. Many of the nation's biggest store chains posted disappointing sales for July as consumers, worried about jobs, spent gingerly. A mixed weekly unemployment report offered investors little encouragement ahead of Friday's numbers. ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... exactly 1130 hours (AEST), the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release a tally of how many of us were able to keep our jobs last month, how many were still looking for work and how many started submitting forms to Centrelink. Financial markets expect ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... and European equity markets declined following a disappointing report on the US service sector during July, and ahead of US jobs data due on Friday. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was three points ...

How planners can cope with redundancy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... Rimmer, chief executive of FSP, said that retrenchment is a shock to the system, often traumatising the persons who lost their jobs and those close to them. This even takes a more compelling turn in financial planning where planners have a longer term ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... sighted in the housing market. Wall Street rejoiced. Yes, Virginia. Remember housing and how lending to NINJAs (No Income. No Jobs and Assets) jumpstarted the mess that is the global financial crisis? It's now showing signs of repair. Sales of new homes ...

African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... "Poverty has a female face and the global economic downturn will have a significant impact on women as more of them lose jobs and are forced to manage shrinking household incomes," Ezekwesili said. "The face of poverty is female," she said. "She is 18.5 ...

Super jobs bonanza

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... are looking for information and that's where the biggest opportunities are," said Doyle. Hay's report and optimism about jobs in super come at a time when the unemployment rate is at a six year high. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures noted that ...