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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... early - and the news was not good. The software giant posted an 11 per cent drop in profits and said it will slash 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. The company said deteriorating global economic conditions and lower revenue from PC software forced ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... Obama's inauguration, headlines were again relating horror stories about thousand of workers being given the boot. '6000 jobs axed as BHP feels the pinch,' printed the Sydney Morning Herald. The Age had 'PM's plea on jobs ignored' as it wrote about 'thousands ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... Australia's market declined as the country's biggest company, BHP Billiton, said it would cut production and slash thousands of jobs in an effort to combat the global financial crisis. At 1215 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 54.5 points ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... the year to December following an 8.2 per cent slump in November. Sales are down because consumers are worried about their jobs - unemployment rose to 7.2 per cent in December (a 15-year high) - and banks are tightening lending standards. More job losses ...

Storm staff lose jobs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... Accountants have closed Queensland based financial planning group Storm Financial resulting in 115 staff members losing their jobs. According to a statement, Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants said the firm's income had declined recently, resulting ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... these commentators cannot be faulted. Depressing news from the US over the weekend that revealed its economy lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008 and a slump in the ANZ job advertisement survey reported earlier in the week laid the ground for a bearish spin ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... afford their usual psychological crutches as they see the value of their homes and investments continue to erode and their jobs threatened. Depressed US consumers are no longer able to afford retail therapy. Data out overnight showed that US retail sales ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... indicated by the weekend's depressing payrolls report. The US Labor Department reported that the economy lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008 - the biggest one-year decline in employment since 1945. The bulk of the job shedding - 1.9 million - occurred in the ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... Force report for November of course. But many headlines did not see it that way. Bloomberg headline: Australia Lost 15,600 Jobs, Adding to Signs Economy May Enter a Recession. News.com.au headline: Jobless rate edges higher as crisis bites. The Age online ...