Jamelle Agbuis

The Australian Dollar has opened in the mid 1.0700’s after the release of US June non-farm payroll data on Friday evening was significantly lower than all predictions.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has gained approval to use in-house lawyers to conduct all its civil penalty litigations.

Capital city auction clearance rates are edging up after tracking below 50% for five weeks, RP Data has indicated.

Australia is on the cusp of making major changes to its credit reporting regime, but whether the new system will be better for brokers’ clients is still up for debate.

Despite the latest forecast showing a slight oversupply for accounting and auditing professionals for the next five years, employers will face difficulties in recruiting personnel as the demand for multi-skilled staff increases.

SPC Ardmona has announced the release of three new fruit snacks aimed at kids of all ages into supermarkets across Australia.

Opera has updated its Opera Next browser, which contains the latest developmental (and unstable) build of Opera to version 12.00. This is a pre-alpha release, and contains only a series of minor bug fixes and stability improvements, with "juicy and fresh stuff" promised for future releases.

I'm not the first to ask that question, but there's good reason to pose it again. Media tablet shipments plummeted 28 percent sequentially during first quarter, says IDC. Even the iPad missed earlier expectations.

Never fails to amaze us how much effort web browser development teams are investing to bring us the latest and best browser. But why are Opera and Firefox so keen to be seen to develop and release new versions of their browsers more quickly than ever?

I attempted to go Google-free and, as explained a few days ago, failed. What's that cliché? If you can't beat them, join them. So now I'm going all Google, or as nearly as humanly possible.

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9% in June, the participation rate edged up from 65.5% to 65.6% and the working age population rose by 19,600, all of which would point normally towards robust robust health for employment.

More people are making the same move. Since 2008, 1 million US households cut cable's cord and switched to over-the-air broadcasts and online streaming, says Convergence Consultancy Group, which expects the number to reach 2 million by year's end.

The protracted pause on interest rates by the RBA is bringing first home buyers back to the market, Loan Market has claimed.

Implementing generous and accommodating parental leave policies can help employers boost their productivity and bottom line, according to the Fair Work Ombudsman.

The Aussie Dollar closed out a busy and volatile week without breaking trend on Friday. After oscillating wildly between 1.0650 and 1.0780 on various data sets and continual swings in risk sentiment, the New York session brought with it disappointing US unemployment data, sending the Aussie tumbling from 1.0780 to a near break of 1.0700.

The Australian share market on Friday closed firmer after strong gains in the resources, retail and telecommunication sectors.

US employment (non-farm payrolls) rose by just 18,000 people in June - well short of forecasts centred on a jobs gain of 90,000. Private sector jobs rose by 57,000.

The Australian dollar has opened higher this morning, buoyed by positive sentiment in offshore markets overnight.

The latest rate rise from China's central bank should make investors and others just that teensy weensy concerned about the country's economy.

The Australian economy is not falling apart, despite all the talk of multi-speed economies, recession and doom and boom.

The past few weeks have been full of commentary questioning the resources boom and its impact on the wider economy.

Brokers who choose to add risk insurance and financial planning into their business may be stretching themselves too thin, according to aggregator Australian Loan Company (ALCo).

Prospective home buyers are borrowing more today compared to 12 months ago, according to independent mortgage comparison website Yourmortgage.com.au.

As industry gets set to embark on a new financial year, business information research firm IBISWorld has released its annual list nominating the top 10 industries set to soar in 2011-12 and the top 5 worst-performing.

A banking reform bill to be introduced today by the Greens will include measures to make LMI portable.

It's a common human desire to keep up with the Joneses or even to play games of oneupmanship, and it's no truer when applied to PCs.

When Mozilla released Firefox 4 (and now Firefox 5), it appeared to have finally fixed some of the performance-related gripes of earlier releases.

Today, the Consumer Electronics Association announced that, no surprise, Microsoft's CEO would give CES' kick-off keynote next year.

The MFAA has claimed refinancing is still alive in spite of a flat mortgage market.