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Portfolio Partners offsets co2 with tree-planting program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... business practices, including limiting our own impact on the environment. We have opted for tree plantation because it creates jobs and has sound conservation benefits, in addition to converting harmful greenhouse gases to oxygen." The trees chosen will ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... leave the annual growth rate for this segment of the employment market at 0.4 per cent. The addition of 31,700 full-time jobs caused a net increase of 10,500 jobs and resulted in overall employment growth to falling from 2.9 per cent to 2.7 per cent. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... showed a 1.9 per cent rise in March continuing the positive momentum seen in this indicator. The weekly average number of jobs advertised is now 221,000 which is just under 25 per cent more than this time last year. The Chinese trade surplus has narrowed ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... buoyed energy shares and Citigroup gained on expectations of big job cuts. Reports that Citigroup Inc will cut at least 15,000 jobs lifted the No 1 US bank's shares 1.6 per cent, supporting the Dow and S&P indices. Crude oil prices resumed their climb ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... up." In the US, stocks closed flat as news of investments in the railroad sector by billionaire Warren Buffett and strong jobs data offset worries about earnings and subprime loans. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 8.94 points to 12,569.14, the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... considering the best interests of both shareholders, the potential new owners and themselves in profits. There were 180,000 new jobs created in the US in March which assisted the soft landing camp and helps negate the pessimism that has been resulting ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... - US stocks closed flat on Monday as news of investments in the railroad sector by billionaire Warren Buffett and strong jobs data offset worries about earnings and subprime loans. The transport sector rallied after Buffett acquired a stake in three ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
Just released ABS Jobs vacancies data shows that in the year to February there were 12.8 per cent more vacancies on a trend basis and this in addition to the highest wage growth in a decade and more bouyant housing market and consumer demand data suggests ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... yesterday's close, while the three-year contract price was at 94.035 from 94.100. Bonds may come under more pressure today with jobs data likely to point to a continuing tight labour market. The Reserve Bank of Australia may need to raise interest rates ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... In the US the slowest job creation in two years has further caused concerns about the rate of economic slowing with 62,000 jobs lost in construction last month and the employment in residential construction now having had 11 straight months of decline. ...