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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... falling at a 2.5 per cent rate. The news signals that inflation is remains under control, but it also suggests that workers' wages are getting squeezed, raising doubts about how durable the economic recovery will be. Financial stocks got a boost from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November board meeting. The Melbourne Institute releases its wages report for the November quarter. National Australia Bank releases its quarterly small business survey. THe Australian ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... affected by rising credit rates. Businesses - big and small - are too. Yes, the ones who employ Australians and pay them wages so they can pay for their higher mortgages. Latest data show that Australian business credit fell by 1.6 per cent in September ...

Firm hails the next emerging market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... Western European residents. Plus, many Western European entrepreneurs are attracted and are investing in the region because wages are lower than in their home countries, he said. The firm has a range of funds that are available on the Swedish and Luxembourg ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... Bank of Australia (RBA) releases minutes of its August 4 monetary policy meeting and the Melbourne Institute issues its wages report for the August quarter. The August reporting season continues with GWA International Ltd, iSOFT Group Ltd, OneSteel Ltd ...

Planners lose staff but not for long

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... per cent of planning firms didn't lose any staff - instead choosing to retain workers by choosing to lower their hours or wages. Only 9.5 per cent said they didn't make any cut backs on employment during that time period - in fact these same people have ...

Retirement adequacy beats market slump

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... 25 per cent, the 1.1 per cent increase in average retirement income is underpinned by a lot of other factors, including wages, age pension and [super] contributions," he said. Richardson said that the GFC had conflicting effects depending on which age ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... month and only 4.1 per cent at the start of 2009. The latest reading is the highest in more than five years. Consequently, wages have been falling for nearly a year. A faltering labour market - and falling wages - does not augur well for consumer spending. ...

Working mothers caught in tax snafu

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... Patricia Apps has released research, reported in today's Sydney Morning Herald, that shows women earning low to middle income wages are paying the highest tax rates because of the complex interaction between income tax and family payments. The research ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... price index contract was eight points lower at 3,743. In economic news on Tuesday, the Melbourne Institute releases its wages report for the May quarter. Reserve Bank of Australia board member Jillian Broadbent is due to address a Queensland University ...