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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... has recently fallen slightly after the previous significantly positive lift with the National Australia Bank Business Confidence Survey indicating a decrease by 2 points to a score of 10 in the last month. Business Conditions edged down marginally by ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... New Zealand shares whiled away the start of a holiday-shortened week, with little news aside from a fall in business confidence to provide direction. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed down 4.23 points to 4,180.47.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
The National Australia Bank monthly survey of business conditions and business confidence has been released showing a improvement in the conditions measure to a score of 18 which sits just below the record of 18.6 that was achieved in March 2006. Constituent ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
Following the release of the NAB Business Confidence and Conditions analysis yesterday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment rose 1.7 per cent to place it 3.2 per cent above where it was a year ago. The survey revealed that expectations ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
... last year, trading and profitability fell 7 and 5 point respectively and forward orders fell by 5 points. Business confidence, a different measure to business conditions, fell 4 points which was the lowest level for last year. Research by the Centre ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... productivity fell from 3.2 per cent to 2.2 per cent during the period 1993-94 to 1998-99. In an annual survey of business confidence consulting firm Grant Thornton has released results that show that Australia is now rated thirteenth having previously ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... and overall the national improvement came from the transport, construction and retail industries. However, business confidence remained steady at +6 points having fallen in recent months. The employment component within fell by 6 points to an index level ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
... the increase came in at 38 per cent over the year to September. Following the release of the NAB survey of business confidence and conditions which showed an improvement in business conditions and stability of business confidence, the Westpac-Melbourne ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... voted 5-2 to support the federal government's work choices legislation. The National Australia Bank Survey of business confidence and conditions has reported that for a second month in a row business conditions improved, rising by 4 points to a score ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
... climbing petrol prices. Yesterday, the monthly National Australia Bank' business survey showed a similar story, business confidence was unchanged in September after falling four points last month. The market will be monitoring closely on any hint given ...