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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... for the September quarter, a likely indicator of future interest rate moves, will be a focus of the market. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will also release its skilled job vacancies index for October. In corporate news, Air New ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... arisen about the temporary work s457 visas scheme after the government department responsible for system checks, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA), recorded that only 65 per cent of sponsor employers were being monitored ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
... global output is expected to fall by more than 5 per cent this year to its lowest level for three years, the US Department of Agriculture is reported to have said last week. Adding to the price pressure, the Australian winter harvest is anticipated to ...

SEC hits fraudulent insurer with $790m penalty

... least September 1999 through to June 2003. The insurer will also pay a US$325 million criminal penalty to the US Department of Justice and a $5 million civil penalty to the Massachusetts Securities Division. The Commission's investigations are continuing ...

Kiwisaver allows contributions to be diverted into mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... gross salary will be paid into a Kiwisaver approved savings scheme. Kiwisaver will be coodinated by the New Zealand Department of Inland Revenue (their tax department) and is thought to be where the Australia Labor Party got the idea to have the Australian ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... shares prices and US industrial production and suggests good economic growth over the next three to six months. The Department of Workplace Relations' Skilled Vacancies Index rose by 5.6 per cent in August from the seasonally adjusted July figure, although ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
... Australians who have faced a tripling of oil prices since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The latest figures from the Department of Education, Science and Training showed a 9.7 percent decrease in number of year 12 students going onto university or TAFE ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2006
... AEST. Today the Westpac-Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity for May will be released and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations publishes its July skilled job vacancies data. In equities, mining giant Rio Tinto releases ...

ASFA appointee to focus on best practice

... Complaints Scheme board. Hall has also been a director responsible for economic and social policy advice in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet as well as being secretary of the ACT branch of the CPSU from 1989 to 1993.

Daily Economic Update

... work week introduced in March 2000. Then the government enshrined into law the reduced work hours and created the Department of Work Police to catch and punish over-performers. The Chinese trade surplus grew to US$11.2 billion in March -- the second ...