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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 ...

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 ...