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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... moderate, the resource sector is holding it up a little bit with Rio on the back of their announcement of cutting costs and jobs." Rio Tinto, which plans to slash 14,000 jobs, cut spending and costs and sell assets, was $3.40 or 9.09 per cent higher ...

Aviva covers risky jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Aviva has launched a new Income Daily Living product that insures non-working spouses and Australians in high risk occupations. The new product will offer protection to occupations traditionally classified as 'too risky', such as labourers, window cleaners ...

Infrastructure still key to returns

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... infrastructure because of their long term returns, coupled with the sector's ability to boost the local economy by creating jobs and stimulating nation-building projects. "If we invested in listed trusts we would have much better liquidity. But as long ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... won't just throw money at the problem. We'll measure progress by the reforms we make and the results we achieve -- by the jobs we create, by the energy we save, by whether America is more competitive in the world.' The plan is expected to cost another ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... taking the bad news in stride - even Friday's Labor Department report that showed the nation lost more than a half a million jobs last month. The report raised hopes that the government would take more steps to stimulate the economy. In closing figures ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... payments in a responsible way to make their Christmas all the more special and also do their bit to support the economy and jobs as well," Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said last night. Regardless of what critics say about the detail of the proposal, the ...

Is super sexist?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... women each have their own issues but you have women coming in and out of the workforce and often coming back to part time jobs so we think the problem is bigger for them than it is for men," said Arnold. "We're concentrating on it from a communications ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... payments in a responsible way to make their Christmas all the more special and also do their bit to support the economy and jobs as well," Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said last night. Regardless of what critics say about the detail of the proposal, the ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... to 3,427.2. NEW YORK - Wall Street put an upbeat spin on the government's report that the US lost more than half a million jobs last month. Stocks reversed early losses and closed sharply higher as the data raised hopes that Washington will again step ...