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Unemployment rate 5.6% in December: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2004
... 2.74 million. The figures were slightly above market expectations, which had a consensus of 14,000 extra jobs. The unemployment rate of 5.%, seasonally adjusted, was 0.5 of a percentage point lower than at the same time last year, the ABS said. The workforce ...

Midday Market Wrap: Slightly weaker $A on quiet trading day

... The Australian dollar is slightly weaker at noon, after the US dollar found some strength on better-than-expected unemployment figures overnight. At 1200 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7391/96 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7417/22. ...

Morning Market Wrap: $A opens weaker after US dollar strengthens

... The Australian dollar opened weaker today after the battered US dollar found some impetus on better-than-expected unemployment figures overnight. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7398/03 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7417/22. ...

Economists expect a small rise in employment in November

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2003
Economists expect a small rise in jobs in November to have kept Australia's unemployment rate very close to the near 14-year lows it hit in October. Last month a surprise rise of 69,200 jobs pushed the unemployment rate to 5.6 per cent from 5.8 per ...

Australians still hungry for property AMP indicator reveals

... levels." "While the usual alarm bells for a housing crash aren't present, such as sky high interest rates or rising unemployment, falling investment demand and an improving share market may result in an even further weakening of the housing market," ...

ICAP economists say interest rate hike is unwarranted

... normal levels, and this will detract around one percentage point from growth. ICAP economists also said that the unemployment rate would not be looking so rosy without an unexpected slump in participation rates. They also said that business investment ...

RBA to hike rates to 5.25 per cent next week: economists

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2003
... to growth," he said. "And also the labour market has tightened more significantly than people had expected, with unemployment at 22-year lows. "So it's that global environment, strength in domestic activity, capacity utilisation levels as well as credit ...

Greater fiscal discipline needed: OECD

... system should aim at strengthening the incentives of welfare recipients to participate in gainful employment. The unemployment rate is slated to dip from six percent in 2003, to 5.9% in 2004 and 5.7% in 2005. The GDP at market prices is expected to rise ...

Treasury warns on global recovery

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
... the lack of pressure on the economy from inflation, the Reserve Bank's official interest rate trigger, even though unemployment was at 14-year lows. "For the first time since 1968, Australia enjoys the concurrent combination of unemployment below six ...

Rising rates take steam out of real estate market

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2003
... serve to create some softening of sentiment on the housing market." But strong economic fundamentals of 20-year low unemployment, new migrants creating demand and strong gains in wealth would continue to underpin property investment and prices were still ...