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Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
The Australian Bureau of Statistics - the National Bean Counter - has 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 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was higher at noon, boosted by a positive lead from United States markets, better-than-expected jobs figures and a well-received quarterly profit result from Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp. Official data showed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The Australian share market has received flat leads from Wall Street, with key indices, oil and copper ending marginally lower, while precious metals were higher. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up ten points ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
It'll be another case of "will they, won't they" today as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its regular monthly Board meeting. Will they, won't they? The RBA lowered the country's official cash rate to an even 3 per cent last month. This represented ...

Clarion call for bargain global property

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Global listed property securities have fallen too far with the US presenting some solid investment opportunities, according to ING Clarion Real Estate Securities. Chris Reich, director and portfolio manager at ING Clarion, said real estate investment ...

AIG Life adds to group team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
AIG Life appointed Craig Extrem as national manager, client markets - group insurance. He joins AIG Life from TOWER Australia where he worked as head of sales - group risk since April 2006. Extrem also worked at Prefsure, Lumley Life and Colonial in ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Contrary to the doom-and-gloom news on unemployment, nearly nine out of 10 employers in Sydney say financial services recruitment will start to rebound before mid next year, a new survey shows. Research by Morgan McKinley notes that almost nine out ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sometime ago, I quoted Camp Quality's - an Australian children's family cancer charity organization - TV ad, 'Don't underestimate the power of optimism'. Wall Street lived this statement overnight with both the S&P 500 and the Dow rising by more than ...

Bond funds top UK platform flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
Half the transactions through one of the largest platforms in the UK, Cofunds, flowed into corporate bond funds during this year's first quarter, according to the firm's latest report. According to the latest platform flows report from Cofunds, more ...

MLC takes earnings hit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
NAB-owned wealth management arm MLC reduced its workforce by 5.4 per cent in the six months to March as bad markets and lower management fees took their toll on half-year earnings. In an ASX half-year statement released this morning, NAB announced that ...