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Afternoon Market Wrap: Flat trading for NSW, SA and ACT public holiday

... volume of 7,312 contracts. On Friday night, stock markets around the world rallied after a report showing an increase in jobs in the US for the first time in eight months. Wilson HTM investor Andrew Briscoe said trading on the ASX opened enthusiastically ...

Stronger job ads suggest growing momentum of the economy

... latest ANZ job advertisements suggest that the Australian economy is regaining momentum, with both newspaper and internet jobs on the rise. The 3 per cent rise in metropolitan newspaper job advertisements to 21,709 per week was the strongest increase ...

Midday Market Wrap:Tokyo opens high; ASX subdued

Japanese shares opened higher on Monday as investors snapped up Sony Corp and other exporters after an encouraging U.S. jobs report sent Wall Street up and helped underpin the dollar. The Nikkei average was up 0.95 percent at 10,811.52 as of 0005 GMT ...

Morning Market Wrap: US stocks surge; AU$ weaker

... In NEW YORK, Stocks surged on Friday, racking up a third straight day of gains, after a report showing US employers added jobs for the first time in eight months boosted investors' expectations for an economic rebound. The rally helped major market gauges ...

Midday Market Report: Dollar firm; All eyes on Japan

... key US September employment figures are due out tonight, with the market anxious to see whether there is any break in the jobs drought currently besetting the US economy. Australia's bond market was slightly weaker to noon as traders set up to be short ...

Manufacturing business conditions mixed in September: survey

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
... dollar on competitiveness, the Ai Group said. The production index was little changed at 54.8 points in September, while the jobs index again moved below 50 points. The stocks index rose to a relatively high 56.9. "The overall picture from the PMITM ...

Westpac to restructure staff constituency to simplify technology processes

... its documentation and credit sourcing processes. A spokesman for the bank however also said that it was creating 600 more jobs as part of its customer service programme and that it expected to redeploy most of the redundant staff.

GE pumps $98 million into Burnley development

... million financial services centre to be developed at the company's existing Burnley site. The move will create a least 1500 new jobs, confirming Victoria as a financial services hub in the Asia Pacific region, according to Premier Steve Bracks. The US-based ...

OECD urges governments to improve job opportunities to the marginalised

... disabilities and the low-skilled. In the latest OECD Employment Outlook report, the organization argued that without more and better jobs for such groups who are underrepresented in the workforce, the prospects for economic growth in many countries will ...

Finance Sector Union slams CBA's decision to cut 3,700 jobs

The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has today condemned the Commonwealth Bank's announcement today that it would slash 3,700 jobs over the next three years. "There's no way you can take that amount of people out of an organization and not have an impact ...