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Macquarie may slash jobs in dip

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... an expected fall in revenue as their shares slumped to two-year lows. As news rolled round the globe of the expected job cuts today, Macquarie Group shares slumped a further 1.61% to $28.16 in morning trade, dipping as far as $28.07. Citigroup analyst ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... Department reported private employers hired 268,000 people last month, the most since February 2006. Taking into account job cuts of government workers, the economy added a total of 244,000 jobs overall last month, well above the 185,000 jobs that analysts ...

Van Eyk head of distrib exits, staff cuts

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
Van Eyk has made job cuts across its sales, product, IT and research departments, while head of distribution, Michael Angwin, has resigned. Mark Thomas, chief executive of van Eyk, said less than 10 people were let go as part of the restructure. Angwin ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... cost cutting rather than through revenue growth and highlights the economy's weakness....Mergers also typically lead to job cuts, casting another shadow over an already weak labor market." The bond markets like this... very much. Yields on US Treasuries ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... July from no change in the month before. So what do you think of the job numbers? There's no question about it -- "US job cuts raise double dip fears" -- said Motoko Rich's article in the New York Times. Mr. Rich even quoted Mary Moore saying, ''This ...

Local jobseekers enjoy strong executive search market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... the resilient economy and a local financial services sector that, relatively speaking, was insulated from the massive job cuts seen in Wall Street. Johnson said the numbers were high because they signalled a major reversal in market sentiment in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... Australian shares are likely to open moderately higher after equities in the US and Europe gained on a report that showed job cuts in the US slowed sharply in November. At 0749 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... something to support their views that eventually Australia will fall. Some point to the fall in business investment, further job cuts, weak export prices, uncertainty over the global recovery, etc. I don't know why but even Batman Kevin and Robin Swan ...

MLC takes earnings hit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... cent over the same period although it did slash 625 jobs, equivalent to a 3.3 per cent reduction, in the full year. The job cuts come at a time when MLC Investments' net income fell by 21.4 per cent to $335 million. It blamed lower advice revenues and ...

Make love not leverage

... has slowed to just 1.4 per cent year-on-year. There's more. A Challenger, Gray & Christmas report shows that planned job cuts fell by 20 per cent in March and follows a 23 per cent reduction in the previous month. This is good news for the US labour ...