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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... Retails trade data therefore continues to show the inconclusive sideways movement that we have become use to. Building Approvals data for December shows that on a seasonally adjusted basis the number of total dwelling units approved fell by 1.9 per cent ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... indicator. The six equally weighted variables that feed into the DEWR leading index are sales of new motor vehicles, building approvals, job vacancies, GDP, ANZ newspaper job advertisements and the DEWR skilled vacancies index. The Japanese economy continues ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... toll on the housing industry, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Building approvals data shows that on a seasonally adjusted basis, there was a drop in the number of approvals from September to October of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates tomorrow when it meets. Last weeks announcement that building approvals by municipal councils rose by 6.1 per cent in September to produce a year on year growth in total dwellings approved of 9 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... housing industry to increases in interest rates and some slowing in the economy is evident in the just released building approvals data from the ABS which shows that approvals by municipal councils rose by 6.1 per cent during September after a 12.4 per ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
... annual general meetings. On the economics front, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its September building approvals data and the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its commodity price index for October. The Australian stock market slipped ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... Analysis within shows department stores declined by 7.2 per cent in August after a similar increase in July. Building approvals increased by 2.1 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms from August 2005 to August 2006 with private sector houses rising by ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... the RBA will make a decision on at its next meeting on the 7th of November. Today's monthly retails sales and building approvals data will also provide a little interest. In an attempt to assist the forthcoming sale of additional Telstra shares, the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... it will raise interest rates and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases August retail trade data and building approvals data. The market heavyweights of miners and banks combined to help push the Australian sharemarket higher yesterday as it shrugged ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
... Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its June building approvals data. Elsewhere, Elders Rural Bank will release its annual results and BankWest will report its first half results. Yesterday ...