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Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... work in March from Feb. US employment is heading in the right direction, yippee! But for those looking for something to worry about, they could simply point to calculations that the US economy need to add 400K jobs monthly to be truly considered in recovery. ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... Oliver noted. "If the wind changes to westerly, blowing towards America it would present all sorts of issues that would worry investors and impact global growth. In terms of event risk, my inclination is that they will get it under control but the tail ...

Mind the leadership gap: survey

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
Nearly half of financial services industry professionals think their bosses are not effective or trustworthy, according to a survey of more than 170,000 workers in Australia and New Zealand. The Aon Hewitt poll, covering seven sectors of the economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, as world markets reflect uncertainty over the effects of political turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. On the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... conflict in Libya continues. Oil prices have risen nine per cent so far this month. That has pushed stocks lower as investors worry that higher gas prices will dampen the economic recovery. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 124.35 points, or one ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... economic fundamentals were a lot weaker than what we have now. It turned out to be a good buying op. And what about the worry "du jour" that is inflation? Bond yields almost everywhere have fallen since the MENA tension erupted. Now why would investors ...

ATO shifts gears on SMSF regos

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... 'lot of non-compliance relating to loans coming out of funds' and a high number of early release schemes that 'had been a worry'. The Cooper review had plenty of proposals to strengthen the ATO's position but implementing all of the changes would take ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... And Australia's still picking up the pieces from its own "acts of god" disasters. And of course, there's that lingering worry when interest rates will rise because of escalating inflationary pressures. Financial markets now expect the European Central ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... financial markets? One word - uncertainty. Financial markets hate this word. But there's always going to be something to worry about. Else, markets would always go in a straight line - up or down. How will traders earn their keep then? Oil prices are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... trillion ($A1.1 trillion) over the coming decade. Republicans and Democrats have sparred over how much spending to cut. The worry is that slashing spending could imperil the economic recovery. Bond prices held steady after details of the budget proposal ...