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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
An estimated $23 billion has been wiped of the Australian share market as it fell further in intra-day trading. At noon the benchmark index remained below 4,000 points amid widespread selling on disappointing US and European economic news. At 1200 AEST ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... 150,000 predicted by the experts. What's more, 49,000 jobs disappeared in March and April after revisions. The unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2% from 8.1%. OMG! Thus, it's hardly surprising that Wall Street behaved the way that it did. The Dow closed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... deepened after the Labour Department said on Friday the US economy only added 69,000 jobs in May, pushing the unemployment rate up to 8.2 per cent. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index closed down 1.14 per cent at 5,260.19 points, while in Frankfurt the ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... found that majority could withstand its worst case scenario that includes an 8% drop in GDP growth with the unemployment rate jumping to 13%, a 21% slide in house prices, and a 50% plunge in the stock market. Certainly, most other financial institutions ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... a-plenty with some 15,500 heads added to payrolls last month. Mind you, this followed a 37.6K surge in March. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% from 5.2%. Wages. The Wage Price Index rose 0.9% in the March quarter following a 1.0% increase in the ...

Australian economy on target for growth: OECD

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... be 3.1% in 2012 and 3.7% in 2013, despite rising tensions in Europe. The OECD also expects that Australia's unemployment rate will remain substantially lower than the 7.9% unemployment rate expected for the OECD as a whole in 2013, and around half of ...

Investors focus on Russian consumer stocks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... factor to disposable income of consumers is the relatively low rate of income tax at 13% in combination with an unemployment rate of 6.5%, Hanson-Lawson said. Value within the area is not a given, with retailers proving expensive last year and prompting ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... predicted end of days on 21-12-2012, that scenario is everyone's worst nightmare - an 8% drop in real GDP; the unemployment rate to hit 13% (it peaked at 10.2% back in 2009); house prices to slide by 21%; and, a 50% dive in stock market prices. And China? ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... interest rate decision. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed higher, boosted by a better-than-expected unemployment rate and expectations that another cut to interest rates will be forthcoming despite the stronger jobs figures. Australia's monthly ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... 115,000 last month hit cyberspace and twitterverse. And... it's bad, it's bad, you know it. It's bad when the unemployment rate falls to 8.1% from 8.2% in March only because a huge number of them Yankees - all 342,000 of them - have given up looking ...