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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... deliveries (up 10.2 points to 56.4); and sales (up 5.7 points to 51.4); while exports were flat (up 5.3 points to 50.0). Employment (up 2.1 to 46.7) and stocks (down 4.0 points to 44.3) remained in contraction. A 3.2 point drop in new orders sent into ...

Former Russell CEO joins MLC trustee board

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... 2001, and head of international (London based) in 2009. He returned to Australia in 2012 and retired from fulltime employment in 2014. Prior to his financial services career, Alan worked for various petrochemical enterprises as a design engineer in Australia ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... the result of a more positive view of the labor market. Looking ahead, consumers are more upbeat about the short-term employment outlook, but somewhat neutral about business conditions and income prospects. Overall, consumers continue to rate current ...

Former Westpac adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... WILS has agreed to honour the policies of those affected. A spokesperson for BT said the insurer terminated Mahoney's employment after his activities were detected by internal controls which were voluntarily reported to ASIC. "We have always taken our ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... forecasts represent participants' individual assessments of appropriate policy given their projections of economic growth, employment, inflation, and other factors at a particular point in time. However, the economic outlook is inherently uncertain ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... August versus plus 0.24 in July and expectations for a 0.15 reading. The index's four main components - production, employment, personal consumption & housing and sales, orders & inventories - all declined over the month. The latest reading "suggests ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... forecasts represent participants' individual assessments of appropriate policy given their projections of economic growth, employment, inflation, and other factors at a particular point in time. However, the economic outlook is inherently uncertain ...

Another former AMP planner cops ban

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... purchase the shares of seven Australian listed companies while in possession of inside information acquired via his employment on 11 separate occasions. Hull's profits from those trades totalled approximately $492,000. For his involvement Hull was sentenced ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
Australia employment The world of financial markets and tea-leaves watching would be a boring place if not for "seasonality adjusted" estimates of economic statistics, especially ones that go up one month and down the next and/or beat expectations one ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... the month of September - no doubt spurred by the lower interest rates (cash rate of 1.5% versus 2.0% last year) and employment prospects (unemployment rate at 5.7% versus 6.1% last year) with the "unemployment expectations index" declining to 138.4 in ...