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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... national inflation, the chances of another rate rise after the Federal Reserve Bank's meeting of December 12 remain slim as GDP growth of 1.6 per cent was recorded for the third quarter after 2.6 per cent in the June quarter.

Corporate tax needs to be more competitive: KPMG

... contrast, Australia's 30 per cent tax rate may be lower than other countries but it is one of the highest in proportion to GDP. "A continuing question for Australian policy-makers should be whether having one of the highest corporate tax burdens within ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Notes on the Australian System of National Accounts released yesterday showed that while GDP increased by 2.8 per cent in 2005-06, GDP per capita increased by 1.5 per cent. The household savings ratio, which has been on a downward spiral for three decades ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... Poor's 500 slipping 11.74 points to 1,377.34 and the Nasdaq retreating 28.48 points to 2,350.62. Heffernan said while the GDP figures in the US came in at 1.6 per cent, there was sufficient data to show that the US economy was in good shape. "That to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
... indeed the government's own modelling submission had claimed that a 10 cent increase would cost about 33,000 jobs and decrease GDP by about 0.2 per cent. Workers in the retail industry have the highest proportion of such minimum wage earners with a proportion ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... via its effect on the Federal government based upon the latest OECD forecasts that the boom has added about 1.75 per cent to GDP. Recent ABS data shows that WA's unemployment rate fell from 7.4 per cent to 4.7 per cent during the period from 1995 to ...

Daily economic round-up

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... per cent of Australia's land mass. Farm incomes are expected to fall by 60 per cent and about 0.8 to 1 per cent of national GDP is expected to disappear this year a as a result. More than 53,000 farmers had been given assistance by the government since ...

China growth an uneven story: Keating

... still a developing country and still a relatively poor one. Fifty per cent of the people are still involved in agriculture and GDP per capita is still only US$1,700. So the picture that this thing is a burgeoning giant with wealth running everywhere ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... undertake missions abroad, a more efficient government and attending to the government's debt which is now about 170 per cent of GDP. The Victoria Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate has released a report by Monash University Associate Professor ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... current trends this region will be as significant to the world economy as it was in 1820 when at 43 per cent of estimated world GDP it started to decline. A meeting of the 18 countries involved in the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries ...