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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 APR 2004
The Australian dollar declined over the weekend after better than expected jobs data in the United States boosted the currency of the world's largest economy. At 0700 AEST the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7569/74 compared with Friday's close ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2004
... Australian stocks should get a kickstart from Wall St and move higher, as investors anticipate positive numbers in a key US jobs report out on Friday. The all ordinaries index was 7.9 points higher at 3417 while the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index gained ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
... States Federal Reserve kept its target interest rate steady and said it can be "patient" in keeping the rate slow to spur jobs growth, driving the US dollar lower. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was trading at $US0.7411/19 compared with yesterday's ...

Matched super scheme available to 1 million more Aussies

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2004
Women in part-time work and teenagers with casual jobs would benefit from changes to superannuation, the federal government said. Assistant Treasurer Helen Coonan said up to one million more Australians would now be eligible to receive matched superannuation ...

Jobless rate rises to 5.9% in February: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2004
... February, new figures showed today, from a revised 5.8% in January. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said full-time jobs fell for the first time since June last year, with 13,100 positions lost in the month. But overall employment rose by 1,300 ...

February newspaper job ads posts biggest rise in nine months

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2004
... in February to a seasonally adjusted 22,119 a week. The ANZ Australian newspaper job advertisements survey found February jobs were 4.9% higher than a year earlier and halted the underlying downward trend in newspaper job advertising that was first evident ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2004
The Australian dollar opened stronger, after weaker-than-expected United States jobs number sent most currencies higher against the US dollar. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was trading at $US0.7594/99 compared with yesterday's close of $0.7509/19. ...

Internet job adverts at three-year high

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2004
... despite the effects of recent interest rate rises and the high Australian dollar. The Olivier Internet Job Index, with 114,279 jobs counted in February, is now well above the high of 2003 and is the best since April 2001. The index averaged 33,920 more ...

Jobs at SMEs strongest since GST

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2004
Employment in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) grew to their strongest levels in the January quarter since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax, a business index found. The Sensis Business Index for Small and Medium Enterprises showed that ...

Government and employers agree on $10 wage rise for low paid

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2004
... rise of up to $10 a week for Australia's lowest-paid workers in this year's minimum wage case, saying any more would cost jobs. The figure is less than half the amount sought by unions, who want an extra $26.60 a week for about 1.6 million award empl ...