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| | | ... All Ordinaries Index closed the week up by nearly six per cent, against a backdrop of a sharp increase in the unemployment rate to 5.2 per cent and forecasts that it could climb to 10 per cent in the near term. Investors have either become inured to ... |
| | | | ... be held. On Thursday, the Australian stock market closed slightly lower in mostly flat trading as Australia's unemployment rate hit a four-year high. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 8.9 points, or 0.27 per cent lower, at 3,235.5, while the broader ... |
| | | | ... tendencies. We are certainly doomed now because the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) tallied the country's unemployment rate at 5.2 per cent in February, a 4 percentage point increase from 4.8 per cent in the previous month and a 1.3 percentage ... |
| | | | ... see, hear what they want to hear. Last night, they did not hear Bernanke say that it is possible that the US unemployment rate could go up to 10 per cent. They did not see the Wall Street Journal warning that credit cards would be the next to be crunched. ... |
| | | | ... could be worse than news over the weekend that America sacked another 651,000 workers in February, taking the unemployment rate up to 8.1 per cent - the highest in 25 years. Last month, the jobless rate was 7.6 per cent. Last year, it was 4.8 per cent. ... |
| | | | ... as horrific as many traders feared. The Labor Department said employers cut 651,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 per cent. The government also upwardly revised its December and January job loss figures to 681,000 and 655,000 ... |
| | | | ... Aldi planning to put an additional 2,600 workers in its stores this year? This is the reason why Australia's unemployment rate has remained low 4.8 per cent. If you do the maths 4.8 per cent unemployment means 95.2 per cent of the workforce are employed. ... |
| | | | ... positions that disappeared over the month. Never mind that overall job numbers declined by only 1,200 and the unemployment rate inched up by only 0.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent. But it was too hard to put a negative spin on yesterday's Australian jobs ... |
| | | | ... points do not augur well for the Australian employment report the ABS is set to release at 1130 this morning. The unemployment rate is expected to rise to 4.7 per cent in January from 4.5 per cent in December. Similarly, markets expect that the report ... |
| | | | ... the spectrum have warned that if we don't act immediately, millions more jobs will be lost, and the national unemployment rate will approach double digits.' He wants the package wrapped up and on his desk before Congress breaks for the President's Day ... |
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