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Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... report could re-invigorate market appetite for equities. This would not be difficult to achieve given the increase in productivity that sharp cost cutting had produced over the past months. And to further the bulls' case, General Motors is reportedly ...

Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... benefits, unit labour costs have come down by 1.2 per cent in the first quarter, resulting in a 1.6 per cent lift in productivity. Sure there will be a lot more difficulties ahead. Heck, there were challenges even when Australia was growing at three ...

LUCRF goes live with Bluedoor

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... uses the platform that is provided by DST Global Solutions. "We are already experiencing significant improvements in productivity and we have been able to better-automate many administration processes," said LUCRF Super chief executive Greg Sword. "We ...

Outsourcing the next boom market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... each. "The top three challenges are around retaining and acquiring new customers, generating revenue and maximising productivity. Under these economic [circumstances], it's now become politically correct to talk about cost savings as a primary consideration ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... planning and practice management software," said Guggenheimer. "It's one of the things we're doing to focus on the productivity side. By the 30th of June this year, we'll have over 80 per cent of our practice having made the decision to adopt the new ...

NAB deploys Telstra tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... "Telstra has long been an advocate of speech recognition technology to enhance customer service and boost business productivity. We look forward to playing a part in the improved service for NAB people and customers through the Telstra and VeCommerce ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo is scheduled to deliver an address entitled Changing Business Models to Boost Productivity, to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) in Perth. The Australian share market ended last week on a ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... decline. Worst, the previous month was revised from a decline of 4.6 per cent to a decline of 6.5 per cent. The good. US productivity is rising as businesses reduced headcount and employee hours more than they cut production. Non-farm productivity increased ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... Unemployment benefits rose last week to a 26-year high, and factory orders fell for the fifth straight month in December. Productivity rose by 3.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, however, more than twice what analysts expected. At the end, the Dow industrials ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... Mortgage defaults will decline and housing will be more affordable. Restructuring and cost cutting will increase productivity, competitiveness improves and profitability returns. Weak companies disappear, and only the strong remains. This will create ...