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Agribusiness conditions improve marginally for the September quarter: NAB survey

... Business confidence has thus exceeded to pre-drought levels. In summary, the NAB survey has revealed that business conditions had improved marginally during the September quarter, trading conditions for agribusiness remain unchanged, export sales seem ...

Midday Market Wrap: Market slips into negative

... volume as two multi-billion dollar takeover deals encouraged investors to buy stocks in a vote of confidence on business conditions. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 25.70 points to 9608.16, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index added ...

Business conditions strengthen significantly: NAB survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2003
Business conditions strengthened significantly in the September quarter, with confidence up sharply, according to the latest National Australia Bank survey. Business activity accelerated and there are encouraging signs the worst is over for rural and ...

Economy strong; rates will rise: NAB survey

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2003
Australian business conditions remained robust in September, indicating unrelenting strength in the economy, the latest National Australia Bank (NAB) business survey shows. While business conditions were marginally lower than the strong levels of August ...

Interest rates steady but rise on the way: economists

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2003
... forecast of rate hikes by six months to a 50 basis points rise in the first half of 2004. "The pick-up in business conditions and confidence, building approvals, retail spending and job ads has signalled a return to at least a four per cent pace of growth ...

Afternoon market wrap: $A rockets to five-and-a-half year high

... US dollar was savaged by its major rivals. Tokyo stocks gained today after a key survey indicated Japanese business conditions have improved to their strongest levels in nearly three years. The US dollar was up against the Japanese yen. The Nikkei Stock ...

Manufacturing business conditions mixed in September: survey

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
Business conditions in Australia's manufacturing sector were mixed in September and production growth little changed as employment fell, a survey found. But the Australian Industry (Ai) Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Performance of Manufacturing Index ...

August business conditions strongest in nearly nine years: NAB

Business conditions strengthened in August to the highest level since late 1994, according to the latest National Australia Bank (NAB) business survey, released today. Strength was broadly based, according to the NAB, and was underlined by a significant ...

Growth survey reveals a resilient domestic economy: Costello

... showed that in the two months following the very subdued June quarter the economy accelerated swiftly. The business conditions index rose to an eight-year high of 18 index points, up by four points on July's reading. "The NAB released its monthly business ...

NAB survey reveals ongoing strength of the non-farm economy

... after taking into account the element of seasonality. The survey revealed that for the second month in a row business conditions seem to be trending higher (implying that growth in the non farm sector of between 4 and 4 1/2 per cent will continue). There ...