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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... increase of 10,500 jobs and resulted in overall employment growth to falling from 2.9 per cent to 2.7 per cent. The unemployment rate in WA fell from 3 per cent to 2.7 per cent which is the lowest level recorded since employment statistics were first ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... and sluggish business capital equipment expenditure. While the participation rate stayed at 66.2 per cent, the unemployment rate fell from 4.5 per cent to 4.4 per cent. The IMF has reduced its forecast for the US GDP by 0.3 per cent to 2.6 per cent this ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... workforce than there were a year ago and the number of unemployed persons has fallen by about 9.3 per cent. The unemployment rate is now 4.6 per cent and has fallen by 0.6 per cent over the last year. The participation rate is now 64.9 having decreased ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... there has been a decrease of 11.6 per cent in unemployed persons over the last year to 492,000. The national unemployment rate fell by 0.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent which remains the lowest for in excess of thirty years. Analysis of the data shows that ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... creation of 110,00 new jobs which was considerably less than the December figure of 206,000 and in causing the unemployment rate to increase by 0.1 per cent has given economists a sense that such softening of the labour market will help perceptions that ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... technology and greenhouse technologies were technologies that Australia would have a comparative advantage in. The unemployment rate in the US has increased slightly from 4.4 to 4.5 per cent as 132,000 jobs were added in November ahead of the market ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... and those looking for part-time work decreased slightly to 141,400. The result of these movements was that the unemployment rate remained at 4.6 per cent and the participation rate increased to 64.8 per cent. The unemployment rate in WA is now 3.1 per ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... people who want to work full-time in addition to those who are lucky enough to, tends to double the existing unemployment rate. Unfortunately this number also under-estimates a better measure of unemployment which would weight those in the sample that ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... September labour force data with economists expecting 10,000 new jobs to have been created in the month and the unemployment rate to remain at 4.8 per cent The Australian stock market fell yesterday after a recent record-breaking run, as the central ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... of the largest discounts in prices for in excess of three decades. The latest US data shows a decline in the unemployment rate from 4.6 per cent in September to 4.4 per cent in October and thus evidence that while the US economy has experienced a slowing ...

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Blackwattle takes over Quest Asset Partners

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Blackwattle Investment Partners has swallowed up Australian equities manager Quest Asset Partners for an undisclosed sum.

Funds SA poaches Vision Super risk specialist

MATTHEW WAI  |   12:07PM
Funds SA will welcome a Vision Super executive to replace executive director, governance and strategy Tony Burrill, as he prepares for retirement following a seven-year tenure at the company.

Regal flags muted second-half performance fees

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Insignia chief draws 'hard line' on NCAs giving retirement advice

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