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Economists expect sedate employment growth for September

Economists have forecasted that Australia's workforce is likely to grow at a more sedate pace in September after August's massive growth rate which culminated in the unemployment rate being at a 13-year low of 5.8 per cent. The median of market forecasts ...

Midday Market Wrap: Bond market stronger after yesterday's sell off

The Australian bond market opened slightly stronger today, halting yesterday's sharp sell off. At 0900 AEST the yield on the Commonwealth Government May 2013 bond was at 5.545 per cent from 5.570 at yesterday's close. The yield on the November 2006 ...

NZ Super Fund appoints BNP Paribas as new custodian

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has finalised the negotiations with BNP Paribas Securities Services to secure BNP Paribas as the custodian and investment operations provider to the NZ Fund. The Fund's portfolio's value will initially be NZ$2.4 billion ...

Macquarie reaps benefit of increased tolls on highways

The latest toll hikes on Sydney's most expensive motorway is paying rich dividends to its owner Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG). The MIG disclosed today that toll-paying traffic on the Eastern Distributor, also called the M1, grew 5.3 per cent ...

Investors happy to "Buy the dips": FSIU survey

Australian investment professionals remain undaunted by the fall in equity markets during September, if anything becoming slightly more optimistic on the prospects for both the Australian and international markets in the next 12 months, according to ...

Labor proposes stronger corporate disclosure measures

Senator Stephen Conroy, the deputy opposition leader in the senate and the shadow minister for financial services and corporate governance, has said that the self-regulatory approach of the Government is incapable of tackling unbridled corporate greed ...

Latest employment data released by the ABS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in its latest employment data for Australia have revealed that its trend figures indicate a 0.1 per cent reduction in full-time employment during August 2003to 6,781,200, but a rise of 1.4% for the year. Part-time ...

ASIC bars former securities dealer from practicing financial services

Former Victorian securities dealer Martin James Donohue has been permanently banned from acting as a securities dealer or investment adviser representative, following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). During ...

Stronger job ads suggest growing momentum of the economy

The latest ANZ job advertisements suggest that the Australian economy is regaining momentum, with both newspaper and internet jobs on the rise. The 3 per cent rise in metropolitan newspaper job advertisements to 21,709 per week was the strongest increase ...

Midday Market Wrap:Tokyo opens high; ASX subdued

Japanese shares opened higher on Monday as investors snapped up Sony Corp and other exporters after an encouraging U.S. jobs report sent Wall Street up and helped underpin the dollar. The Nikkei average was up 0.95 percent at 10,811.52 as of 0005 GMT ...