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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... upcoming July employment report. Automatic Data Processing said private sector employment rose by 9,000 this month. After seeing jobs disappear by the thousands in recent months, the stock market is eager for any insights into the Labor Department's ...

BT Financial jobs on the chopping block

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
BT Financial has placed 100 roles in its support and management divisions under review, blaming the staff cuts to the volatile markets. The move comes after the group funds under management fell 9 per cent during the 12 months to March 2008, according ...

More Weak Indicators

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... Continuing claims fell by 9,000 to 3.107 million for the week ending July 12. This report points to further weakness in the US jobs market. The official employment report will be released on 1 August. Meanwhile, the US National Association of Realtors ...

Finsia launches Career Portal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... designed to compliment the institute's existing portfolio of career services, which includes the Finsia Mentoring Program and Jobs Ready Online search engine. Finsia's chief executive Martin Fahy said that the country's hinges on its ability to maintain ...

Gen Y risks high fees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... contingent on their continuing to work with the employer. Gen Y is particularly prone to being caught out given they will change jobs more often over their careers," he said. "Young professionals are also more exposed as they usually have four or five ...

Contribs tax for women under review

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... per month are not entitled to SG payments. This rule directly affects women who are on part-time, casual work or multiple jobs that individually pay well below this amount. According to HESTA's annual member survey last year, 51 per cent of of those ...

Great Southern shrinks as sales drop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... which is a need to cut costs across all areas of the fund manager's operations for the business to remain buoyant. Ikin said jobs will be axed in the firm's sales and marketing department, and rental, facility and overhead expenses will also be slashed. ...

Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... Labour Force data at 11:30 AM today. Labour market surveys released earlier this week point to continuing weakness on the jobs front. The ANZ job ads survey released last Monday showed the total number of jobs advertised in major metropolitan newspapers ...

This Week's Market Movers (7-11 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... Federal Government's income tax cut, which took effect on 1 July. Employment (June). The ABS reported that around 19,700 jobs were lost but that the unemployment rate steadied at 4.3 per cent in May. While Australia's seasonally adjusted jobless rate ...

Women dropping out of financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... and to work in clerical as opposed to management positions. Sixty-five per cent of women in the industry are in clerical jobs compared with 32 per cent of men. Fahy said: "The success of this industry requires us to have a comparative advantage in the ...