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Midday market wrap: $A strengthens following ABS jobs data

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2003
... a volume of 17,304 contracts. The Australian dollar had run to strength at noon on the back of much better than expected jobs data and a plunging domestic unemployment rate. The Australian dollar climbed around a quarter of a US cent in response to the ...

Federal Treasurer Costello indicates that the economy is very strong

... from these figures is that in the midst of that very difficult international climate, good news is more Australians have jobs," he said. "I don't think that I see any implications for inflation, no, and I think inflation expectations are quite low," ...

Domestic job figures to give new clues to economy

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2003
... the first time in six months. But the Department of Workplace Relations said the five-month run of positive results meant jobs growth would still pick up towards the end of the year. Economists expect a rise in the number of jobs of between 20,000 and ...

Labor endorses ACCC decision

... before the House of Representatives. If passed in its current form, the bill would undermine Australian safety standards and jobs, because it assumes Australia and New Zealand have the same level of safety and risk in aviation operations, Mr Ferguson ...

Controversial Gunns timber company in healthy profits announcement

... shareholders, its employees and Tasmania, thus providing valuable stability for employment and the economy. "It means more jobs for Tasmanians, more export income and increased taxes, licence and royalty payments, with Gunns now directly employing some ...

CBA annual profit report could bring job agenda back

... fairly sure that that will include more job losses," she added. Any new redundancies would be on top of the roughly 2,200 jobs already cut by CBA in the last year, including the 600 retail positions it confirmed would be cut late last month. That latest ...

National wage cost index rises 0.6% in the June quarter: ABS

... private sector in the June quarter 2003 were dominated by salary reviews and certified agreements whilst a small number of jobs were affected by award-based increases. Certified agreements were almost entirely responsible for the public sector pay increases ...

Morning market wrap: US stocks dip on disappointing data

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2003
... on the disappointing news, ending the day mixed to slightly lower. Earlier the Labor Department reported a further 44,000 jobs were cut from US payrolls in July, and that June was revised down from a loss of 30,000 to 44,000. While the unemployment rate ...

CBA cuts 600 retail jobs

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2003
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd (CBA) has cut 600 jobs from its retail division, in a bid to match branch staff numbers with falling demand for branch banking, it has announced. Despite the cuts, Australia's second biggest bank maintained it had ...

Unemployment rises 0.1% in June 2003: ABS

... Statistics (ABS) said today. The total number of people employed as at June 2003 was 9,507,500, a decrease of 54,000 full-time jobs but an increase of part-time employment by 26,100 leading to a net decrease of 27,900 jobs as compared with May's statistics. ...