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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
... Exchange at 0821 AEDT, the March share price index contract was up 15 points at 5803. In economic news today, the Seek employment index for January has been released. The Reserve Bank of Australia meets to decide its position on interest rates and the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... societal implications of their business decisions in addition to the usual financial considerations. In the US the January employment data saw the creation of 110,00 new jobs which was considerably less than the December figure of 206,000 and in causing ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... slight lift over the last six months from a long-term decline in R&D per capita. The report notes that full-time ICT employment accounts for nearly 5.5 per cent of such employment in Australia which is apparently more than many other industry sectors ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... These figures give some consolation to those who closely track inflation in the US although the strength of the US employment market continues to cause the Federal Reserve there to issue warnings about the omnipresent danger of a breakout in inflatio ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... of 0.93 per cent and are below the peak of 1.07 per cent reached last year. Although the reports from the ABS show employment at an all time high the warning signs about the employment cycle have begun to trickle through. The Department of Employment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
... number of job advertisements in December to be about 28 per cent higher than it was a year earlier. In line with the employment market expectations noted above recruitment consultant Hudson has just completed an employment expectations survey which found ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... 9.7 per cent in November. The November fall was effected by the RBA rate rise a week earlier and the 32,00 fall in employment during the month of October. The index did however increase by 3.9 and 12.5 per cent respectively in October and September. ...

Employment mobility figures revised

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... changed industry, 44 per cent changed occupation, 75 per cent changed their working hours and 37 per cent changed their employment type. Those in the younger age groups tended to change employer more with 22 per cent of the 20-24 year olds versus 4.9 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... and retail industries. However, business confidence remained steady at +6 points having fallen in recent months. The employment component within fell by 6 points to an index level of +2 which is a contrary signal to the figures coming from the ABS although ...

Aust Meat Industry Super Trust opens to the public

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... of people that want to join the fund that we can't take at the moment and we've got existing members who go to new employment outside the meat industry who want to stay with us, and going public offer means they can do that." Cahill said that once the ...