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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... figures and sluggish business capital equipment expenditure. While the participation rate stayed at 66.2 per cent, the unemployment rate fell from 4.5 per cent to 4.4 per cent. The IMF has reduced its forecast for the US GDP by 0.3 per cent to 2.6 per ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2007
... economy grew faster than previously thought at the end of 2006 and that fewer people than expected filed for state unemployment insurance for the first time last week. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 48.39 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 12,348.75. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... Australian workforce than there were a year ago and the number of unemployed persons has fallen by about 9.3 per cent. The unemployment rate is now 4.6 per cent and has fallen by 0.6 per cent over the last year. The participation rate is now 64.9 having ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... said in a research note this morning. Economists estimate the economy added about 15,000 jobs in February keeping unemployment steady at 4.5 per cent, its lowest level in 32 years. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 57.44 points to 12,133.40 and the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... the growth of perceptions that the economy has slowed significantly but not that it is not grinding to a halt. With unemployment low and wage pressures increasing the Fed will be under ongoing pressure to look at rising interest rates if consumer demand ...

New deputy governor for RBA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... policy, which has helped to deliver an unprecedented period of economic growth, coupled with low inflation and falling unemployment," Treasurer Costello said.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... basis there has been a decrease of 11.6 per cent in unemployed persons over the last year to 492,000. The national unemployment rate fell by 0.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent which remains the lowest for in excess of thirty years. Analysis of the data shows ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... their businesses. Last year the Federal Government released a report saying that about 25,000 people on Centrelink unemployment benefits were not really interested in getting a job. This is out of several hundred thousand still on such benefits. It has ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... the creation of 110,00 new jobs which was considerably less than the December figure of 206,000 and in causing the unemployment rate to increase by 0.1 per cent has given economists a sense that such softening of the labour market will help perceptions ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... western suburbs of Sydney were not sharing in the national uplift due to the current resources boom and that slowing unemployment was compounded by falling property prices and increasingly higher levels of debt. Professor Mitchell notes that while the ...