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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Australian shares are flat as investors stand by for unemployment data for August. The local market closed at the highest point since June 2008 on Wednesday, after posting several days of gains following a coalition election victory. But CommSec market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Australian shares are flat as investors stand by for unemployment data for August. The local market closed at the highest point since June 2008 on Wednesday, after posting several days of gains following a coalition election victory. But CommSec market ...

Syria on ice and other things nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... half years of contraction.A The details of the report showed steady improvement in private consumption despite the unemployment rate remaining at a record high 12.1%. The outlook for the region also looks brighter.A Markit Economic's final Eurozone PMI ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... month and revised lower the previous two months numbers, stocks in Europe swung into gains on Friday. But the US unemployment rate ticked down to 7.3 per cent, closer to the Fed's target of 7.0 per cent for raising interest rates, and European stocks ...

The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... could prove to be the ultimate deciding factor. Unless the payrolls report shows that employment dropped a lot or the unemployment increased a lot in August, chances are all systems are go for a September taper. Recall that taper is data dependent...and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... 5,138.4. NEW YORK - US stocks closed slightly higher as investors look ahead to Friday's crucial monthly jobs and unemployment report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 6.61 points, or 0.04 per cent, to 14,937.48. The broad-based S&P 500 gained 2.0 ...

Employer super contributions down as jobless figure rises

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... super contributions of $112 million, or 0.4%. Bond put the decrease down to a number of factors, including a rise in unemployment - from 5.1% in June 2012 to 5.7 % in June 2013 - and slowing GDP growth. "It is also possible that the leakage to SMSFs ...

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... remains below trend as it was in the first quarter.A It's not growing fast enough to reverse the rising trend in the unemployment rate.A And this, even with the RBA cutting the official cash rate from 4.75% (October 2011) to a record low 2.5%. Tony! ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... - from 50.3 in the previous month. To be sure, the euro area still has a lotta work to do - not least, the still unemployment rate in the region - but recovering economic activity, along with improving business and consumer confidence, should help to ...