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Job ads surge lifts index out of doldrums

10 March 2010

TRADERS forgot about a weak lead from Wall Street and pushed the market higher yesterday afternoon as they basked in the double happiness of the biggest increase in job advertisements in a decade and a large lift in business confidence... read full story

Jobs boom could push budget back to surplus by 2011

10 March 2010

THE jobs market has turned white hot, with newspaper job ads being placed at a rate not seen since the onset of the financial crisis... read full story

...AND ANOTHER THING

4 February 2010

HELEN Liu allegedly told a Bank of China executive that "the money we pay [Joel Fitzgibbon] is worthwhile" (The Age, 3/2). Sounds like a bribe to me and we should immediately throw her into prison for more than six months while we come up with an appropriate charge. Kathy Stewart, Mount Waverley.. read full story

Job ads rise, and rates could follow

6 October 2009

ANOTHER jump in job advertisements has fuelled speculation that the Reserve Bank today could start rolling out the interest rate rises it has been flagging for several months... read full story

NSW leads way in job ads rise

5 October 2009

NSW job advertisements have risen for the third month in a row, providing further evidence that the Australian labour market is stabilising, an online recruitment website says... read full story

Plateau in jobless rate reworks budget sums

11 September 2009

DEFYING all expectations, the national unemployment rate has remained unmoved at 5.8 per cent for the third consecutive month... read full story

Minister warns on rate rises

4 August 2009

CANBERRA has begun preparing the way for higher interest rates, declaring that the present low rates "can't stay that way forever" and expressing sympathy for banks such as Westpac that have already begun pushing up fixed-term mortgage rates... read full story

Party snoozes off during Ruddfest

1 August 2009

I am writing this column in the press room at the Australian Labor Party's 45th national conference. It's like the hospital scene from Gone With the Wind in here. Wave after wave of injured journalists reel in, bleeding from the ears, nursing their heads and moaning from dreadful tedium-related injuries... read full story

Job Ads Fall By Almost A Quarter

9 December 2008

THE latest job advertisements data does not spell bad news just for the economy but underlines the huge pressure on revenues that newspaper publishers across the country face... read full story

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