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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... points at 5466.7, while the all ordinaries lifted 39.4 points to 5453.6 NEW YORK - US stocks fell as higher-than-expected jobs data lowered hopes of an interest rate cut in the near future. The Dow Jones industrial average declined 34.09 points to 12,296.51 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... indicated that industry policy will be a key feature of his economic strategy. While the resources boom has added about 47,000 jobs over the last decade, the manufacturing industry has lost about 75,000 jobs over the last two decades. ABS data released ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... scrutiny of job network members and the system would stop such practices. CSSA found that 40 per cent of people in subsidised jobs returned to the dole within three months. NESA did however agree that staff at job network members were involved in too ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... 15. To this extent the available unemployment measure under-estimate the true level of unemployment. Of the 270,000 plus jobs created in the last year, only about 27,000 people have come off the dole although the government estimates that of the 497,000 ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... high school that number was reduced to about 20 per cent. A sobering though is that although there have been about 271,000 jobs added to the economy up until October of this year, only about 27,000 people have come off the dole according to ABS data. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... per cent of the nation's goods and a services and contributes about 12.1 per cent of GDP while supporting about 1.6 million jobs, will loose about $115 million for every 1 per cent increase in interest rates. Australia's employment data released today ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... results. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its September labour force data with economists expecting 10,000 new jobs to have been created in the month and the unemployment rate to remain at 4.8 per cent The Australian stock market fell yesterday ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
... last year and 10.8 per cent lower than the peak in November 2004. While newspapers contained an average of just over 20,000 jobs per week in October, the internet had in excess of 175,000 jobs per week. Bucking recent trends the majority of newspaper ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... total dwellings approved of 9 per cent has added to the likelihood of rate increase as has the news from the Olivier Internet Jobs Survey which has shown a 7.5 per cent rise in October and a 15.8 per cent growth over the last six months. The US economy ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... points to 5,396.9. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Friday, with the Dow posting its longest losing streak in more than a year, as jobs data showing strength in the economy raised worries the Federal Reserve may need to resume raising interest rates. The ...