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Jobless rate down, could go lower: Costello

WITH AAP | THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003

... continue to grow the Australian economy, if we have measures passed in the Senate to change our welfare system and our labour force system, we could bring it down," said Mr Costello. Markets had been expecting the jobless rate to edge up to six per cent ...

Latest employment data released by the ABS

... 1.2% over the previous quarter, but a significant drop of 4.5% over the previous quarter. The ABS also said that the labour force under-utilisation rate was 11.9% (figures for September 2002), the proportion of children living in families where no parent ...

OECD urges governments to improve job opportunities to the marginalised

... 1.3 per cent over the past 30 years to 0.3% over the next 30 years. In some countries such as Italy and Japan, the labour force could in fact decline. The report also revealed that on current trends, the ratio of over 65-year olds to the total workforce ...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

... not a good lens through which to read the economy in a low-inflation world. The ICAP economists also added that the labour force is where the current episode does stand out. They said that the Federal Reserve had always waited for employment to return ...

Midday market wrap: $A strengthens following ABS jobs data

AAP | THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2003

... domestic unemployment rate. The Australian dollar climbed around a quarter of a US cent in response to the 1130 AEST labour force figures. Australia's unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 5.8 per cent in August, from an unrevised 6.2% in July ...

Unemployment rate dips 0.4% to 5.8%: ABS

... revealed that the nation's unemployment rate dipped 0.4 per cent from 6.2% in July 2003 to 5.8% in August 2003. The labour force participation rate has risen in that period from 63.4% to 63.5%. The total number of employed persons has risen by about ...

ABS releases labour force experience data

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released a summarised format of its labour force experience data for the year ending February 2003, and said that there were 13,749,300 civilian Australians aged 15-69 years in February 2003 and that 10,198,000 ...

Job advertisements rise 1.5% in August: ANZ job advertisement series

... on the extent to which signs of improving job prospects attract previously discouraged job-seekers back into the labour force, reversing the decline in the participation rate which appears to have occurred over the past six months." "However, employment ...

Father's Day facts: some interesting data produced by the ABS

... 1,764,100 men were husbands and partners with children under 15 years in Australia. These men had the highest rate of labour force participation of 93 per cent (that is, they were either working or looking for work) compared with men in different family ...

Unemployment rate rises marginally in July

... Statistics (ABS) said today. The ABS also said that employment figures revealed that there were 55,200 less people in the labour force during July, from 9,507,500 in June to 9,452,300 last month. Full-time employment decreased by 700 to 6,757,900 and ...

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Aware Super reshapes governance team, appoints chief risk officer

VINNY VUCAGO | 12:28PM

Aware Super has announced a leadership reshuffle, appointing a new chief risk officer amid the departure of its long-serving group executive of legal.

IFM lifts stake in Atlas Arteria to 40% after upping offer price

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:37PM

IFM Investors has raised its stake in Atlas Arteria from 34.5% to 38.3% in an on-market stock purchase, just a day after it raised its offer price for the toll road operator to $5.10 per security.

Zenith bolsters research, investment capabilities with new hires

MATTHEW WAI | 10:54AM

Zenith has announced two senior appointments to strengthen its research and portfolio management divisions.

Regulators push for stronger stress-testing capability, resilience

KARREN VERGARA | 11:52AM

The ability to remain resilient and manage liquidity pressures amid severe, multi-dimensional stress scenarios is an area of focus that APRA and ASIC want superannuation funds to improve.

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