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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... its monthly business survey for October. In equities news, Incitec Pivot post full-year results while Seven West Media and UGL hold annual general meetings. The Australian Resources Conference is on in Western Australia and Reserve Bank of Australia's ...

Ugly jobs decline rattles financial services

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia has experienced the world's largest drop off in financial service jobs with a 34% drop in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same time last year, according to the quarterly Jobs Barometer from eFinancialCareers. While the decline is ...

Bad everywhere news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
Believe me I tried... and I tried, and I tried. But I can't find no, no good news on cyberspace, on print or th airwaves this morning. The good news have all AWOL it seems. What I found instead was a listing of the bad and the ugly. Below are the Bloomberg ...

Investment management hit by downturn

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
A cocktail of market blows since the GFC which led super funds to reduce costs by going passive, amalgamate through economies-of-scale, and the internalisation of portfolio management by larger funds - plus reduced availability of capital - has meant ...

Market down 5%: Resources look ugly

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
At reporting season's three quarter mark last week, defensive stocks surfaced with their best half year of growth since 2009, while cyclicals recorded their worst - despite industrials earnings rising 4%. With only a little more than a third of stocks ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... Markets market analyst Cameron Peacock said the market was lower on the back of several companies - Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, UGL and JB Hi-Fi - trading ex-dividend. "The market's pretty square when you consider that to be the fact," Mr Peacock said. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... of $112.8 million for the year to June 30 causing its shares to rise 27.5 cents, 8.81 per cent, to $3.39. Engineering firm UGL's shares fell $1.15, or 8.94 per cent, after its full year profit has dropped by 15 per cent. National turnover was 184 million ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release lending finance for June. In equities news, Newcrest Mining, UGL and Downer EDI are all due to post full year results, while James Hardie is schedulted to release first quarter results. In ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Ho-ho-hum. Been there, done that times n. Another day, another week, another month, another quarter and still financial markets continue to dance to the same old songs. They rise and fall depending on the headline of the day - though it seems to me ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...