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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... data. At 0845 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 37 points at 5,159. The US Labor Department said the economy added 113,000 jobs in January, far below the 175,000 forecast. Analysts said there were some positive aspects ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... 351,000 the previous week. The improvement in claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, came a day ahead of the Labor Department's January job growth and unemployment data. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia issues its Statement ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... slightly above the 53.8 level expected by analysts. Analysts do not expect significant market swings ahead of the Labor Department report on January job growth and unemployment on Friday. LONDON - European equities failed to get a boost from solid economic ...

AMP IM director departs as restructure rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
AMP Financial Services director of Investment Management Stephanie Weston has left the company amid a broad restructure of the business that has led to a number of job cuts recently. AMP's investment management team is likely to be integrated in the ...

Superannuation bodies axed in government streamlining

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
The SuperStream Advisory Council, the Superannuation Advisory Committee and the Superannuation Roundtable have become the latest casualties of the government's 'streamlining' process. With reforms to the superannuation sector in recent years largely ...

PROFILE: AMP Horizons director Amelia Constantinidis

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... getting on with having a family of her own. In spite of the pressure, she took a job as a typist within the public works department and unearthed a genuine interest in computers. "Whenever there was an issue with the word processors I took an interest ...

Trust in Australian CEOs plummets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... neither here nor there in my book," he said. In the United States on Friday, markets closed mixed after the monthly Labor Department report said the US economy added 74,000 jobs in December - well below the 197,000 expected by analysts. On the Australian ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... 0645 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,286. The monthly US Labor Department report said the world's biggest economy added just 74,000 jobs in December, well below the 197,000 expected by analysts. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... 198.69 points, or 1.26 per cent, at 16,020.20 points after a better-than-expected November jobs report from the Labor Department. The US jobless rate dropped to 7.0 per cent, a five-year low, from 7.3 per cent in October, and the economy added 203,000 ...