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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... 25 points at 4,414. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release the wage price index for September quarter while the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment is also due out. In equities news ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... home: The Westpac/Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index dropped by 2.5% to 96.6 in August. Australia's wage price index rose by 1.0% in the June quarter from 0.9% in the first quarter. The annual growth in wages and salaries excluding bonuses ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... month. Mind you, this followed a 37.6K surge in March. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% from 5.2%. Wages. The Wage Price Index rose 0.9% in the March quarter following a 1.0% increase in the previous three-month period. Wages continue to rise but ...

Economic round-up: Money cant buy you love

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... forecasting. Recent median estimates of a 1.3 per cent wage increase missed the mark with the release of the latest wage price index as according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics the wage price index climbed only 1 per cent from the fourth quarter. ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... is on the mark both the quarterly and annual growth rates would be the fastest in the nine year history of the wage price index. With yet another cheap airline planning to land in Australia this is good news for commercial pilots and bad news for our ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... Price Index - reported a day before the US CPI data - showed little upward pressure on inflation from wages. The wage price index (WPI) rose by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter and 4 per cent over the year. These are less than market expectations for ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
... Statistics (ABS) Labour Price Index report indicates that little upward pressure on inflation from wages. The wage price index (WPI) rose by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter and 4 per cent over the year. These are less than market expectations for a ...

Daily economic update

... growth slowing, there is little pressure on inflation through higher wages. In fact, recent data showed that the wage price index increased by less than expected in the fourth quarter. These soft conditions prompted the RBA to lower its underlying inflation ...

Weekly economic round-up

... enhanced by last week's wages reports indicating little pressure on inflation coming from the labour market. The ABS wage price index (WPI) excluding bonuses rose by a lower than expected 0.9 per cent in the December quarter, down from 1.1 per cent in ...

Daily economic update

... rates remain the order of the day. Speaking of inflation, much like the indication provided by the Australian wage price index report, average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE) for full-time adult employees growth slowed to 0.4 per cent in the November ...