ORDINARY Australians are struggling to make ends meet as wage growth stagnates and the cost of living soars but the one per cent are living large. And while the true rich listers have… Read more at: http://www.ntnews.com.au/business/australias-50-highest-paid-jobs-revealed-in-tax-office-data/news-story/fb6d6337e21252024170c0b899cb399f
Posted on November 28, 2016by maria in Buying Tips
Australian stocks closed weaker. Today’s scoreboard: S&P ASX 200: 5,464.40 -43.38 -0.79% All Ordinaries: 5,532.60 -37.90 -0.68% AUD/USD: 0.7472 +0.0028 +0.38% The local market ate away at the 2.7% gains of last week with the ASX200 slipping below 5500 point…
Posted on November 24, 2016by maria in Buying Tips
hares took a breather on Thursday ahead of the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US, with the 5500 level proving a bridge too far amid a day of low trading volumes. The S&P/ASX 200 Index began trade with a promising push…
Posted on November 23, 2016by maria in Buying Tips
Just when the market had anticipated Australian construction had hit “peak weakness”, activity has posted its biggest fall in 16 years. On seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, construction work fell sharply by… Read more at:…
Australia is the fastest growing AAA-rated commodity exporter this year despite escalating government debt, according to credit ratings agency Moody’s. Moody’s said Australia is likely to maintain faster GDP expansion than Canada and Norway, and similar to New Zealand but,…
Australia should follow the lead of the United States in requiring public companies to disclose how much their CEO makes each year directly compared to an “average” rank and file employee. Ballooning executive pay contributes to income inequality and the…
Posted on September 29, 2016by maria in Buying Tips
As Alec Baldwin famously said in the film Glengarry Glen Ross: ‘Always Be Closing’. And there’s no shortage of people looking to become closers. Amazon has 439,752 book results when you search the word “sales”. From titles like “The Psychology…
Posted on September 25, 2016by maria in Buying Tips
Amazon has been fined £65,000 after being found guilty of attempting to ship dangerous goods by air. The online giant tried to transport lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols between 2014 and 2015. It was found guilty at Read more at:…
Posted on September 22, 2016by maria in Buying Tips
Michael Forster, professional and financial lines specialist at Suncorp Group, was recently announced as the winner of the Australian Professional Indemnity Group (APIG) and Wotton + Kearney scholarship and said that while technology will impact the financial lines area, tradition…
Posted on September 21, 2016by maria in Buying Tips
More Australians than ever before are regularly working from home in their main job, the top reason being the need to catch up on unfinished work. An analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveals the number of employed people who…