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Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... decline in claims for unemployment insurance in recent months. This is also underscored by the 9.5 per cent surge in US productivity in the third quarter. This rise indicates that firms are working their existing workers harder and cannot be sustained ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket was up 1.3 per cent by noon on Friday after better than expected jobs and productivity data in the US and as the Reserve Bank of Australia raised its forecast for economic growth. All sectors of the market gained, despite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... points, or 0.62 per cent, to 4519.2, the lowest since September 7. NEW YORK - Encouraging news on jobs and worker productivity gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the US economy and pushed stocks to big gains. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Super fund exec pay under fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... superannuation funds are not legislated to disclose the remuneration of their top executives. In a separate development, the Productivity Commission today released its discussion draft report on executive remuneration in the country. The Commission said ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... Exchange, the December share price index contract was 12 points lower at 4745. In economic news on Wednesday, the Productivity Commission releases its report on executive remuneration, and the Reserve Bank of Australia issues its financial aggregates ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... confidence fell in August to its lowest level since March but remains above the 30-year low hit in November last year. Productivity jumped to an annualised rate of 6.4 per cent in the second quarter - explains the good company reporting season. And lastly ...

Eslake joins think-tank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... Saul Eslake, former ANZ chief economist for 14 years, has joined the Gratton Institute as program director in the productivity growth division. The Gratton Institute is a new think-tank that is supported by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... American Chamber of Commerce in Australia on "The National Broadbank Network - Supercharging Competition and Increasing Productivity". GUD Holdings Ltd will release annual results. The Australian all ordinaries index has posted its 10th straight day ...

AMP gears up for changes in advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... eventuality. "Consumers are also looking for more value or less. So we are looking at practice management efficiencies and productivity improvements - for example such as technology improvements through the rollout of COIN software," said a spokesperson ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... pessimism. True, jobless people spend less. Less spending equals lower profits. But lesser workers also equal higher productivity. Increased productivity equals better margins. And talking about expectations, the mere shift in outlook to 'less good' ...