■ Moonlighters thriving
With a large number of outsourcing jobs being created amid the trend of business streamlining in Taiwan, tallies released yesterday by a local online outsourcing job bank shows that the number of moonlighters has more than doubled in the past year. According to Jcase, office workers who accepted second jobs through the job bank increased 2.37-fold from 52,372 in May last year to 124,058 in October this year. Among a wide variety of part-time jobs currently available in the job market, Jcase noted that new options are program planners for year-end or New Year parties, pet sitters, adult story writers and pornography dubbing actors.
■ Brokerages enjoy lift
Share prices of brokerage houses rose on the main bourse yesterday, after the legislature passed the amendments to the Securities and Exchange Law (證券交易法) on Tuesday that will allow brokerage houses to reserve clients' funds, a move that is expected to increase their commission income and new business opportunities. Shares of Yuanta Core Pacific Securities (元大京華) rose 6 percent to NT$23.65, Polaris Securities (寶來) edged up 5.2 percent to NT$15.1 and Capital Securities (群益) were up 4.9 percent at NT$12.85, as analysts said these brokerage houses are now allowed to engage in booming wealth management business.
■ NT dollar declines
The NT dollar declined against its US counterpart yesterday, dropping NT$0.06 to close at NT$33.256 on the Taipei Foreign Exchange.
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