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Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... that the Americans won't relive the pain and desperation ever again. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 - aimed at protecting jobs at home by raising import tariffs - and the National Labour Relations Act of 1935 - giving the government power to set prices ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... four years (5.2 per cent in March 2005). Even worse - the financial presses pointed out - was the loss of 53,800 full-time jobs during the month. We have to make this as painful as we could. The overall employment gain of 1,800 was left as an afterthought ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... 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  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... It was the S&P/ASX 200's weakest close since mid-July 2003. NEW YORK - Stocks regained some lost ground on Friday after a jobs report that was bad but not as horrific as many traders feared. The Labor Department said employers cut 651,000 jobs last month ...

Macq makes further cuts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... 13,898 at the end of September last year to 12,851 at the end of January 2009, equivalent to 1,047 employees losing their jobs in the space of four months. A Macquarie spokesperson declined to comment.

HSBC Premier business up 76 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... loss from its sub-prime exposure. Its US division, HSBC Finance Corporation (HFC) is reportedly being wound down with 6,100 jobs cut, according to the UK's Guardian newspaper.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... extremely anxious ahead of Friday's February Labor Department report that is likely to show the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. Better-than-expected retail sales and factory orders were not enough to stoke investor confidence. The Dow Jones industrial ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... epicenter continues to be battered. Automatic Data Processing's (ADP) survey of US private employment showed another 697,000 jobs were lost in February on top of the 614,000 jobs that disappeared in the previous month. Similarly, the Institute of Supply ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... Thursday. The Wall Street gains came despite further bleak economic news, with a monthly survey of payrolls indicating 697,000 jobs were shed in the US in February, more than the 630,000 expected. Official jobs data is due for release in the US on Friday. ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... to be, in the dumps. The banking and financial sectors are in distress. Businesses are failing. Workers are losing their jobs. The economy is contracting and perhaps the global recession would be deeper. There were rumours and rumours of rumours of nationalisation. ...