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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
The NAB monthly survey of business confidence has found that business conditions fell by 12 points and the overall NAB index fell by six points in September to a score of two. NAB says that expectations are for a weaker December quarter especially in ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index has risen to its highest level since January 2000 as the US market absorbs the positive impact of lower oil prices and the reduced threat of harsher interest rates. The consumer side of the economy as measured ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
The Reserve Bank has decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 6 per cent following the Australian Bureau of Statistics announcement yesterday that in seasonally adjusted terms retail sales increased by 0.3 per cent in August after the 0.5 per cent ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
When the Reserve Bank meets today to consider the economy and whether or not they should raise interest rates, some pressure against an upward move has come from the survey of the construction industry by the Master Builders Association. The index of ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
Data on the number of job vacancies was released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday revealing that on a seasonally adjusted basis the national figure stood at 154,000 in August, up by 11 per cent from the corresponding quarter last year. ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
In the latest Global Competitiveness Rankings by the Geneva based World Economic Forum Australia has slipped from its previous position of 10th to 19th. The rankings are a result of a global Executive Opinion Survey of 11,000 business leaders in 125 ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... GDP. The Victoria Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate has released a report by Monash University Associate Professor Peter Gahan on the new Work Choices industrial relations laws which concludes that around 20 per cent of callers to their information ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
The acting executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Karen Schneider, said that earnings from commodity exports are expected to increase by 14 per cent to $140 billion in 2006-07, of which minerals and energy ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... occupy the discussions of business and community leaders with the head of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Peter Hendy, commenting that the $1 billion called for by Australian Industry Group counterpart, Heather Ridout, was too simplistic ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
Further evidence of a slowing Australian economy came yesterday with the release of ABS figures for the August sales of new cars, which fell by 2.3 per cent. Analysis of the data shows that passenger vehicle sales fell by 1.1 per cent, other vehicles ...