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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... cut. The nation's gross domestic product rose by 0.3 per cent in the September quarter, below the 0.7 per cent rise economists were expecting. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 40.5 points, or 0.77 per cent, at 5,321.8 points. The broader All Ordinaries ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... expected local economic data and mixed overseas leads. Business investment rose 0.2% in the September quarter, beating economists' expectations of a 1.9% fall, while new home sales rose three per cent in October, following a flat result in September. ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... product rose at a 3.9 per cent annualised rate, up from an initial estimate of 3.5 per cent. The median forecast of 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected a 3.3 per cent gain. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... comes out Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe is scheduled to speak at the annual Australian Business Economists conference dinner, Financial Services Council head John Brogden delivers a speech to the Australian Business Economists ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... at S&P Capital IQ, said investors did not want to oversell stocks before Friday, in case the jobs report is strong. Economists on average expect the US economy added 210,000 jobs in September, after a disappointing 142,00 in August. LONDON - Europe's ...

Unbelievably beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... to eight times more than consensus estimates. Could it be a case of fat finger? Or have all our bright and talented economists got their models stupendously wrong? Or have the National Statistician? But according to the ABS, "The ABS is aware that the ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... below the government's 3.5 per cent annual target. It also missed the median estimate of 2.2 per cent in a survey of 15 economists by the Wall Street Journal. WELLINGTON - New Zealand's benchmark NZX 50 Index has jumped to a record high after the Reserve ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... inching up of late as a proportion of GDP, rising from 34.9% in 2010 to 36.2% last year, according to official data. Some economists think the true share could be ten percentage points higher. This year even with the government's "mini-stimulus"-a burst ...

Law firm rubbishes Grattan fee report

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... expressly the focus of the FSI), ought to focus on the presence of economic rent, not on costs. Rent is the concept used by economists to describe the quantum of profit above that required to compensate for the risk undertaken. The appropriate question ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... residential property and mortgage market operates differently to the US and Europe. Meanwhile on stage right we have most economists telling us that the real problem with housing is we don't have enough construction and it's pent up demand and undersupply ...