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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 ...

NAB merges three wealth units

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... in 2007. It has stakes in boutique firms Northward Capital and Pengana Capital. Clyne said he doesn't anticipate any job cuts at MLC.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... $15.84 and ANZ was down 37 cents at $12.59. Ms Saly said there was speculation that Macquarie Group could be planning more job cuts. Shares in Macquarie Group were down seven cents at $17.33 at 1204 AEDT. Despite generally strong metals prices on the ...

Job cuts drive record advice requests

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
Mercer took a record 413,000 calls last year from super fund members seeking financial advice, with an 84 per cent jump in queries relating to redundancy payments. Mercer reported that calls to client helplines jumped dramatically in October, the month ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... that there have been cases where they have adjusted some of the conditions for sub-plans where there have been massive job cuts. "So you're looking at how can the [former] member be best looked after. We have done that on a couple of funds. In the car ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... from the previous day's surge as jitters persisted over a global financial crisis which has sparked tens of thousands of job cuts this week. In London, the FTSE 100 index shed 14.6 points or 0.35 per cent to close at 4,194.41 points. FRANKFURT - The ...

Jobs safe in Australia: ING

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... local arm of the Dutch banking and insurance giant - including its investment management business - would be spared the job cuts. "We don't anticipate any major job changes. "We are actively managing the business in Australia, prudently managing the ...