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Industry fund cuts insurance costs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... claims in previous years. For death and TPD insurance, members engaged in blue-collar or manual work will experience a weekly drop of 44 cents to $10.76. White-collar or non-manual employee's weekly insurance costs have been trimmed by 20 cents, bringing ...

Biggest weekly drop since and other scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... financial markets falls, the All Ordinaries index' recorded one of the biggest falls among the majors. Heck, it's 3.8% weekly drop even surpassed the Nikkei's 3.5% slide. It's down alongside the big 4% and 3.7% falls in the equity markets of big budget ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... waiting to hear more from the president, Obama said only, "Merry Christmas." Stocks fell despite the fourth straight weekly drop in applications for unemployment benefits. Applications fell 29,000 last week to 343,000, the second-lowest this year, the ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... the week prior and against expectations for a decline to 379,000. The 27,000 drop (392K less 365K) is the biggest weekly drop in a year. No, the US labour market is not slowing. But here's where we go back to iffy. US-non-farm productivity fell to a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... Declining shares outnumbered advancing stocks by nearly 19 to 1. On the week, the Nikkei fell 6.5 per cent, its biggest weekly drop since January 2009. HONG KONG - The market was closed on Friday for a public holiday. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... up. But no! Mr. Market continued to brood, sending the S&P 500 index down 1.6 per cent for the week - the biggest weekly drop since February. This also marked the first three consecutive weeks of falls since July. What's Mr. Market worrying about is ...
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