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Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release June Labour Force data at 11:30 AM today. Labour market surveys released earlier this week point to continuing weakness on the jobs front. The ANZ job ads survey released last Monday showed the ...

Market Movers Overnight: Bernanke's speech

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... the backdrop of falling house prices, tighter lending criteria, more expensive credit and lately, a weakening US labour market. Any speculation that the Fed is about to raise interest rates this year is premature and Chairman Bernanke's speech last night ...

ABS cutbacks bad idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... depth in key economic areas as it meet savings targets outlined in the Federal Budget. Research and development for labour market, social, prices and demography statistics will be wound back, as will some aspects of State and Territory statistical services ...

Rates on hold thanks to oil prices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
... households and businesses has weakened significantly. There have also been some tentative signs of an easing in labour market conditions," said the Reserve in its official explanation yesterday. Despite the Reserve's optimism that conditions are on-track ...

Mercer appoints India MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... "Companies are increasingly looking to us to advise them addressing these challenges with talent management, the diverse labour market and changing legislation around benefits." This appointment follows the appointment of Rashmi Mehrotra as business ...

Economy slowing down and speeding up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... business credit, and subdued business and consumer confidence. Asset markets were also less buoyant than previously. Labour market conditions, on the other hand, had remained strong to date. This could be explained by lags, in which case a moderation ...

Cracks appearing in Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... household spending, the strong euro is threatening exports, the screws are being turned on credit terms, and the labour market is starting to wobble. This combination of negative factors is gradually beginning to weigh on the economy. Leading indicators ...

AXA appoints group insurance head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... consultants, brokers and employers in insurance as a key employee benefit and a real differentiator in this tight labour market; especially in the white collar professional market segment."

Job vacancies bull run falters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... expansion may be crowding out the private sector and inadvertently driving up labour costs and adding to Australia's labour market capacity constraints. According to the ABS report, there were 19,200 public sector vacancies compared to 161,100 in the ...

What US recession?

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
Fears about the US economy plunging into recession have been overstated, overplayed, and blown out of proportion - but the outlook for 2008 still looks fairly benign, according to economists from Lehman Brothers. "There's a 60 per cent chance, in our ...