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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... April showed the median expectation of inflation was 4.3 per cent, down from 4.6 per cent in March. Australia's unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 4.1 per cent in March, compared with 4.0 per cent in February. In company news, Bank of Queensland ...

Unemployment rises to 4.1 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... impacting gender-based employment as male unemployment jumped 0.3 percentage points to 3.9 per cent while the female unemployment rate decreased by 0.2 percentage points to 4.2 per cent. Despite the increase in the seasonal numbers, the trend estimate ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... 1.5 per cent at noon, led by financial stocks weighed by problems in credit markets. An unexpected fall in the unemployment rate also influenced the fall, on fears that interest rates may increase again. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had ...

US dominoes keep falling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... has since slowed sharply. Labor market conditions have similarly softened, as job creation has slowed and the unemployment rate - at 4.9 percent in January - has moved up somewhat," he said. Further illustrating how the sub-prime contagion is now jumping ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... to unearth new sources of labour that we may not have previously targeted too aggressively. This is why the unemployment rate rising from 4.2 to 4.5 per cent yesterday was treated as almost good news. But the increasing rate of employment accompanied ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... out-performance". "Strong full-time jobs growth is a positive for incomes growth and consumer spending, while the higher unemployment rate will do little to allay any RBA concerns over wage inflation risks," Evans said. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs' chief ...

Economic round-up: Rescheduling retirement

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
While jobless figures are expected to fall to another record low, there are interesting anomalies in the job market with full-time positions and participation of older workers both increasing. Bets are on that our jobless figures will have a three in ...

Economic round-up: Manufacturing out run by fitness

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... time, while business and property services are forecasting a meagre 2.1 annual employment growth. While our unemployment rate sits at 4.2 per cent, according to DEWR, school leavers completing only year 10 face more than double that unemployment rate ...

Mining may halt but football endures

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
As the Federal Government commits $17 million in water saving devices for Scout halls across Australia, the water shortage crisis has been revealed as far worse than previously reported. Along with farmers, mining and other water-intensive industries ...

Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... hosing scum from the streets. France's economy has grown more slowly than any other developed country and its unemployment rate is the highest in Europe at 9.8 per cent - even grimmer for under 24s where around 25 per cent are jobless. It's difficult ...