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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... September share price index futures contract was up 13 points at 5,495. In local economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases overseas arrivals and departures data for May, the ANZ job advertisements series for June is due out ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... September share price index futures contract was up 13 points at 5,495. In local economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases overseas arrivals and departures data for May, the ANZ job advertisements series for June is due out ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... about remains "considerable". "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers" - yup. The U-6 unemployment rate or what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... increase but no significant deceleration either). Then again, this report could well be just as quickly forgotten when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the official jobs tally for June... but this, too, had been trending sideways since ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... Conference of Economists (ACE) and the Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM) in Hobart. Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases building approvals and the retail trade figures, both for May, while the Australian Industry Group's ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... shot up 12.97 (0.66 per cent) to 1,973.20. Both were new records. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is due to release May's international trade in goods and services data. Reserve Bank of Australia assistant ...

Social media business use up 25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... businesses in Australia had a social media presence in June 2013, according to survey results just released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This is up one quarter from one in five the previous year. Growth in social media use by business is accompanied ...

Financial services falling behind in online transactions

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... is lagging behind other sectors in online business transactions, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The report -- Summary of IT Use and Innovation in Australian Business 2012-13 -- reveals that despite ...

Future Fund staff bonuses stun public sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
Furore has erupted among the commonwealth bureaucracy following publication of the performance bonuses received by staff employed at the Future Fund Management Agency. While details of the bonuses were disclosed in the FFMA 2012-13 annual report they ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... economic news on Tuesday the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its monthly board meeting, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics issues May's new motor vehicle sales figures and the merchandise imports data for the same month. In equities ...