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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... share price index contract was 31 points higher at 4557. In economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) labour force data for August is due out. The Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Inflationary Expectations for September and the Westpac-Melbourne ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... the not so distant past when gloomers and doomers ruled the roost? When headlines spun each and every Australian Labour Force report into something short of causing a heart attack? Back in March this year when most of us were fearful, the headlines read ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... than Wednesday's S&P/ASX 200 Index closing price. In economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release labour force data for July. The Australian Office of Financial Management tenders Treasury notes maturing November 27, 2009, and January ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... contract was one point lower at 3,724. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases labour force data for June. The Melbourne Institute Survey of consumer inflationary expectations and the Westpac/Melbourne Institute ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... was three points higher at 4,023. In economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases on Thursday its labour force data for May. The Melbourne Institute releases its Survey of Consumer Inflationary Expectations for June and, with Westpac ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... got it wrong. This was the main reaction to yesterday's fall in Australia's unemployment numbers. The Australian Labour Force Report showed that the country's unemployment rate fell to 5.4 per cent in April after jumping 5 basis points to 5.7 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... Financial Management donducts tenders for 13, 26 and 39 week Treasury notes, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data for April is due. In Sydney, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president, Dr Janet Yellen, addresses Australian ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... again when Australia's soothsayers sing a familiar refrain, 'we are doomed.' I of course refer to the Australian Labour Force Report which will be released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at 11:30 AM, our time. Market betting is that the report ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... looked at another way, the 4.5 per cent unemployment rate in January 2009 could also mean that 95.5 per cent of the labour force are employed. The February figures have taken it down a bit to 94.8 per cent. According to reports, the unemployment rate ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
What's this? No headlines on yesterday's all-important Australian Labour Force report? Australian newspapers have relegated yesterday's Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) employment report to their inside pages. Since November last year, the media ...