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Macquarie takes first in full service broking

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Macquarie has been confirmed as the leading full service stockbroker for 2006 according to IRESS Market Data. Data released by IRESS shows Macquarie significantly leading all other competitors for nine out of the 12 months to the end of 2006. "During ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... poll of employers finding that a third would increase payrolls for the next six months. This is an improvement on the last figure about such expectations, thirty five per cent said that they had experienced a shortage of skilled workers which is an increase ...

Canadian pension funds score 12.9 per cent

... the gains with the Euro's 10 per cent rise against the Loonie increasing the Canadian Pension Plan's foreign performance figure to a high 21.6 per cent. "Since the Canada Revenue Agency lifted foreign content restrictions in 2005, global stock market ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... in mid-2004 that were in the low twenty per cent range. While business credit fell from 1.7 per cent growth to a monthly figure of 1.2 per cent in November to achieve an annual growth figure of 16.6 per cent this is still reasonably healthy and although ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data indicates that on a seasonally adjusted basis there was a 2.3 per cent rise over the month in unemployed persons, although this is still 8.2 per cent less than a year ago. Of the 44,600 new jobs added ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
The continuing importance of the resource sector can be judged by ABS data released on mineral exploration which shows that expenditure increased by 17.2 per cent or $56.4 million over the last quarter to now be worth $384 million for the quarter. The ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a strong lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0828 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up 23 points to 5,567. Today, the Australian Industry Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

ASIC updates court on Westpoint progress

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
The Federal Court in Perth yesterday received an update from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on its investigations into the Westpoint collapse in support of ASIC's bid to extend the freezing of assets of key Westpoint figures. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... believed that the State government had not reduced administrative red-tape sufficiently which was an increase from the figure of 63 per cent scored in the previous two surveys. With the skills crisis hitting WA particularly, 60 per cent of respondents ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment rose by 11.8 per cent over the month to December having fallen 9.7 per cent in November. The November fall was effected by the RBA rate rise a week earlier and the 32,00 fall in employment ...