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16 Aug 2013 (AFR) – Hindenburg Omen weighs on investor confidence 16 Aug 2013 | 04:39 am
[COMMENT: This Hindenburg Omen is a signal that depends on a number of criteria based on share market observations. It is reputed to be not that reliable; but there are many people who will sit up and...
16 Aug 2013 (AFR) – Who’d fly? China’s commuters rail against air travel 16 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
(16 August 2013, AFR, p31, Jasmine Wang) ‘For two decades, Liu Yueping flew first class on China Southern Airlines between Changsha and Shenzhen. This year, she took a bullet train and spent a fifth ...
16 Aug 2013 (AFR) – Germany, France steer euro zone out of recession 16 Aug 2013 | 04:26 am
(16 August 2013, AFR, p30, Angeline Benoit and Jeff Black) ‘The euro zone’s economy emerged from a record-long recession in the second quarter, led by Germany and France, amid the first sustained per...
16 Aug 2013 (AFR) – Steel price forecast to lose sheen 16 Aug 2013 | 04:24 am
(16 August 2013, AFR, p19, Financial Times) ‘If the health of a nation’s steel industry is a test of economic well-being, investors have more than minute gains in European output numbers to feel opti...
13 Aug 2013 (TheAge) – JB Hi-Fi’s $116m profit defies slump 13 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am
(13 August 2013, The Age, BusinessDay, p23, Eli Greenblat) ‘Strong and sustained sales momentum that took hold after Christmas has helped JB Hi-Fi defy the general downturn across the retail sector t...
9 Aug 2013 (TheAge) – Taxman wields axe on small business 9 Aug 2013 | 11:07 am
(9 August 2013, The Age, BusinessDay, p28, Adele Ferguson) ‘The Australian Taxation Office has become the grim reaper of small business after statistics reveal it is behind nearly half the 1365 compa...
9 Aug 2013 (TheAge) – Push to keep economy on an even keel 9 Aug 2013 | 11:05 am
(9 August 2013, The Age, BusinessDay, p24, Brian Robins) ‘Concerted effort is needed by government to resolve issues spanning from slow project approvals through to lifting infrastructure spending to...
9 Aug 2013 (TheAge) – Trend figures paint a bleaker jobs picture 9 Aug 2013 | 11:03 am
(9 August 2013, The Age, BusinessDay, p23, Tim Colebatch) ‘It is a puzzle. On the seasonally adjusted estimates that analysts choose to focus on, July saw 5700 fewer people unemployed. So times are g...
9 Aug 2013 (TheAge) – Employment weakens on mining decline 9 Aug 2013 | 11:02 am
(9 August 2013, The Age, BusinessDay, p23, Glenda Kwek) ‘The jobless rate remained at a four-year high in July, with the economy shedding 10,200 jobs in a soft reading that has supported the Reserve ...
9 Aug 2013 (TheAge) – Broker cops fine over high-speed trades 9 Aug 2013 | 10:58 am
(9 August 2013, The Age, BusinessDay, p22, Gareth Hutchens) ‘A high-frequency trader was allowed to make hundreds of potentially highly suspect trades for three weeks in late 2010, and the broker tha...
