City Comment: Sue Dodd_3

The financial markets have been extremely volatile in recent weeks, well reflecting the party-pooping news being relayed by economists and central bankers. However, following several consecutive days of FTSE 100 decline described by Kean Marden in his Recruiter column two weeks ago, there eventually followed a partial recovery in global stock markets, driven upwards by hopes for the ‘Merkozy’ political alliance aimed at stabilising the Eurozone.

City Comment: Sue Dodd_2

While financial markets around the world continue to balance the ongoing debt worries in the Eurozone against more positive news elsewhere, even including some better economic indicators in the US, the pause in decision making by businesses on a global scale is sending a chill into the GDP figures of several countries.

City Comment: Kean Marden_4

For many centuries, the ‘black dog’ has been used as a euphemism for depression, most famously by Sir Winston Churchill in the Second World War and Dr Samuel Johnson in the 1700s.

INTERNATIONAL Egypt: New museum to create 15,000 jobs

Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will provide 15,000 jobs when it opens in 2015, according to an announcement from minister of state antiquities, reports HotelierMiddleEast.com.

INTERNATIONAL Brazil: Monster deal for Grupo Estado

Job board Monster Brazil and media group Grupo Estado have formed a strategic alliance.

INTERNATIONAL Australia: Job ads up 3.3% in February

Job advertisements in newspapers and on the internet in Australia rose 3.3% in February, a second successive month of gains.

Nearly one in five tech firms has turned candidate down on social media profile

According to a survey conducted by PR firms Eurocom Worldwide and Six Degrees, almost one in five technology industry executives says that a candidate’s social media profile has caused them not to hire that person.