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All is not lost

... find out whether they have lost super. Unclaimed or lost super are funds that a person may have forgotten after switching jobs (and signing up to a new super fund) or moving to a new address. As the trend towards job mobility continues, the government ...

Daily Economic Update

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2007
... fell from 7.5 per cent in 2001 to 6.1 per cent in 2006 meaning a fall in visitors by 58 million, the loss of nearly 200,000 jobs and $US 94 billion in visitor consumption as well as $US16 billion in tax revenues. It is generally thought that this significant ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... labour market was tight, the areas of Sydney typically reliant upon factory work were suffering from a loss of full-time jobs since mid-2005. Within Sydney there has been a loss of in excess of 16,000 manufacturing jobs, 12,600 finance and insurance ...

ASFA targets extra super contributions

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... employees where an additional 1 per cent of their income is channelled into super each time they receive a pay increase or change jobs. The additional contribution would be capped at 3 per cent and employees would be able to opt-out at their discretion. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
... cent rise over the month in unemployed persons, although this is still 8.2 per cent less than a year ago. Of the 44,600 new jobs added in December on a seasonally adjusted basis, 17,700 were full-time and 26,900 were part-time. The part-time workforce ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... have a comparative advantage in. The unemployment rate in the US has increased slightly from 4.4 to 4.5 per cent as 132,000 jobs were added in November ahead of the market expectation of 105,000 but still below the current six-month average of 150,000. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... The Nikkei gave up 55.54 points to close at 16,417.82. HONG KONG - Stocks slid 0.55 per cent amid caution ahead of key US jobs data, as exporter Li & Fung fell 3.2 per cent due to disappointing sales estimates in the US and China Mobile weighed. The ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... holidays already." US stocks fell on Thursday, led lower by technology shares, as investors turned skittish about Friday's jobs report and the economy's prospects. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 30.84 points to 12,278.41, the Standard & Poor's ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The momentum in the economy continues to supply jobs with an extra 36,200 being added to the national total of employed persons which is now 10,288,700. Importantly, 57,400 full-time jobs were added continuing the trend of the last year though the number ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... 5450.6. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Thursday, led lower by technology shares, as investors turned skittish about Friday's jobs report and the economy's prospects. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 38.77 points at 12,270.48, the Standard & Poor's ...