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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... July 3 from the previous week's revised figure of 475,000, the department said. Most economists had expected the latest weekly figure to be around 460,000. Sentiment was lifted also by an upgrade to global growth by the IMF despite renewed financial ...

Legalsuper attracts record inflows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... said. The super fund has continually improved its service to members. In April, legalsuper moved from crediting rates to weekly unit pricing for members. The super fund also reviewed its financial planning services and relationship with Industry Funds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... and steel giant ArcelorMittal shed 3.02 per cent. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average extended falls on Friday for its biggest weekly loss in a month, closing below a key support level in what market players said could signal still more drops to come. Fresh ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... market. It may be a bad month for US payrolls but the future is not all that bleak. Here, increases in the index of aggregate weekly hours and average overtime hours are auspicious. You know how it is. Companies first try to squeeze their remaining workers ...

ACSRF boosts insurance for members

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... will also be increases in age-based death and TPD unit values, ranging from 8 to 28 per cent depending on age - but the weekly cost of $1 per unit remains. Meanwhile, the fund is also introducing lifestyle cover for employer members, and a "fixed cover" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... despite an unexpected downward government revision of first-quarter US economic growth and a smaller-than-expected decline in weekly initial jobless benefits claims. Market sentiment gained a boost from China's reassurances that it was not considering ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... Declining shares outnumbered advancing stocks by nearly 19 to 1. On the week, the Nikkei fell 6.5 per cent, its biggest weekly drop since January 2009. HONG KONG - The market was closed on Friday for a public holiday. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket ...

Freaked out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... stalled and the US economy is stuffed. But what about the hefty 40,000 fall in continuing claims? Or the fact that the weekly numbers are highly volatile? A better gauge -- the four-week average of initial claims -- rose by only 3,000 to 453,000 (roughly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... their lowest point in nine months. In economics news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases average weekly earnings data for February. The Melbourne Institute publishes its survey of consumer inflationary expectations for May and ...

Savings boost for GenX and GenY

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... least $70,000 added to their super savings if the proposals become law. For example, a female worker earning the average weekly income today will get an additional $78,000 while a male worker will get an extra $108,000 over their lifetime. Foster said ...