The Australian dollar has fallen to its lowest point in a week on news the national unemployment rate rose to 5.4 per cent last month. At 5pm AEDT today, the Aussie was trading at $US1.051, down from $US1.0553 on Wednesday afternoon. ...
The sharemarket closed at its highest level in 20 months yesterday as consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financial, energy and healthcare sectors enjoying strong gains as investors were frustrated with a lack of significant dips in ...
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The Australian sharemarket rose to a 20-month high today as investors continued to buy banks, consumer staples, property trusts, healthcare and energy companies, while remaining hesitant on iron ore producers after spot iron ore prices ...
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The Australian sharemarket closed at a 19-month high as firming expectations of a February interest rate cut helped banking stocks. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 18.3 points, or 0.38 per cent, higher at 4756.6 ...
The Australian dollar rose ahead of the release of domestic jobs data. At 6.20am AEDT the local currency was at 105.63 US cents, up from yesterday’s local close of 105.53 US cents. During the overnight offshore session, the ...
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December retail sales were up compared to November and also on an annual basis, to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that December retail sales at ...
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The Australian dollar was little changed yesterday in Asian trading, in a muted response to remarks from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the world's largest economy still had quite a way to go towards recovery, despite recent ...
The unemployment rate among U.S. IT workers stood at 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2012, significantly lower than the overall unemployment rate of 7.8%, according to tech job board Dice. The technology consulting industry in the U.S. ...
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On January 8, 2013, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, reported that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the European Union member states (EU-27) was 10.7 percent in November last year, stable compared to ...
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DATA showing only modest growth in US jobs during December dampened expectations that the Federal Reserve will bring its bond-buying program to an end sooner than expected, weighing on the greenback and helping lift the Aussie dollar in the ...
Numbers of Germans out of work rose for the ninth month running in December but held close to a post-reunification low, adding to signs Europe's largest economy remains relatively unscathed by the region's crisis. Labour Office data ...
In 2012, the average number of persons in employment whose place of residence is in Germany amounted to approximately 41.5 million, up by 1% or 416,000 persons compared to 2011. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the basis ...
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Figures from the US Department of Labor Friday showed that 155,000 jobs were added in December 2012,following 161,000 new jobs added in November.The unemployment rate remained unchanged in December at 7.8 percent after the November level ...
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Economic Times reported that employers probably added jobs in December at about the same pace as the prior month, showing the US labour market held up as lawmakers struggled to resolve the fiscal impasse, economists said before a report ...
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In 2012, the average number of persons in employment whose place of residence is in Germany amounted to approximately 41.5 million, up one percent or 416,000 persons compared to 2011. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) ...
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