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Daily Economic Round Up: All about Housing

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... Australia and the fifth on an internationally comparable basis when incomes are considered. The IMF has just revised down its GDP forecasts for Australia from 3.3 per cent to 3.1 per cent and inflation up from 2.6 per cent to 3.5 per cent. In its latest ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... The manufacturing industry contracted 2.4 per cent during the last year. The contribution of the TCF sector to the national GDP figure is now down to about $600 million from about $1 billion five years ago. Australia is seen to have an advantage in capital ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
The national accounts released yesterday show that Australia's GDP grew at only 0.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The increase in GDP was a consequence of an increase of 0.5 per cent in final consumption expenditure, 0.3 per cent in private ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... result of the RBA's board meeting then and after the third quarter CPI data is released on 25 October. Australia's latest GDP data shows that the annual economic growth rate has increased to 0.5 per cent in the June quarter and 0.3 per cent on a seasonally ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... this time inventories decreased while sales rose 0.9 per cent. This fall in inventories is forecast to reduce June quarter GDP, to be announced tomorrow, by as much as 0.7 per cent. The ANZ Bank job advertisement series fell by 1.3 per cent in August ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... last year of 170,000. As a result the unemployment rate fell from 4.8 per cent to 4.7 per cent at a time when second quarter GDP was revised up from 2.5 per cent to 2.9 per cent, still much less than the first quarter performance of 5.6 per cent.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... the fact that it accounts for about 15 per cent of total output. As a consequence the release next Wednesday of the national GDP data is expected to show that it rose between 0.7 and 0.9 per cent in the last quarter. In other news, the July monthly financial ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
... for US workers has declined since 2003 so much so that wages and salaries now make up 45 per cent or the smallest share of GDP since data collection began in 1947. At the same time corporate profits have risen to their highest levels since the 1960s. ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... ABS data, with the mining sector contributing 1.2 billion, a 23 per cent increase, the national tally of 0.95 per cent of GDP is much less than the OECD average of 1.53 per cent of GDP. R&D spending in manufacturing is particularly at risk with many ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... core PCE prices of 2.4 per cent which is within the target range set by the Federal Reserve. On Wednesday the second quarter GDP is expected to show that the US grew at 3 per cent which is slightly ahead of the earlier estimate of 2.5 per cent. Last ...