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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... 0.24 points at 2,180.53. Investors began the day on a bright note after encouraging US employment data from payrolls firm ADP, which said private non-farm businesses added 157,000 jobs in June, a solid jump after the weak 36,000 increase from April to ...

Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... Boogie" on the unveiling of America's latest employment report for its opening tempo was 'allegro'. How else could you describe ADP's report that 157,000 workers found jobs in the private sector in June -- more than twice market expectations? How? Tell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... Nasdaq Composite rose 38.64 points (1.36 per cent) to 2,872.66. Stocks jumped on encouraging jobs data from the payrolls firm ADP, its monthly index showing that private non-farm businesses added 157,000 jobs in June, a solid jump after the weak 36,000 ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... still early days, and one data point does not a trend make. However, when combined with that other labour market stat - the ADP private employment report - the jobs picture really do look brighter. ADP reported last night that private employers added ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... expectations. Financial markets initially expected jobs to grow by 210K in May but this was nearly halved to 125K after the ADP private employment report's came in way below predictions. Try and defend that! Over the past few months, this was easy peasy. ...

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... the past 497 months (since January 1970). You too shall believe brother, when you look at the "big disappointment" that the ADP private employment data created. ADP reported an addition of only 38,000 private sector jobs in May, down from April's 177,000 ...

Property managers stifled by lenders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Property fund managers remain concerned by the lack of access to financing from major lenders, with no notable improvement in the last year, according to the Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA). An ADPIA survey of fund managers ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... among them. They are made-up excuses to fit the end result. Excuses, excuses. Wall Street fell while we slept because the ADP private sector jobs data was lower than markets expected. ADP reported an addition of only 179,000 to private payrolls in April ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... job market and the pace of the US economic recovery put markets on edge on Wednesday. Stocks fell after payroll processor ADP said companies added 179,000 new jobs in April, far fewer than economists had expected. That raised worries about what the government's ...

Insurance advice needs to pick up the pace

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
The Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) is urging property fund managers to check that their insurance coverage is keeping pace with their changing business models. "While under-insurance is by no means confined to the property ...