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Small business confidence at 11 year high - survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2004
... same time last year, she said. The index shows a wide variance in employment amongst the states, with New South Wales recording the best result with 10% growth, and Victorian SMEs recording the weakest at negative 5%.

Bumper year for ASX

The Australian Stock Exchange released its financial year-end statistics yesterday, recording an annual 16.8% increase in the value of the benchmark S&P/ASX-200 and a 17.7% increase in the smaller All Ordinaries index. The sharemarket posted a new record ...

Brisbane has highest housing price increase for the year: ABS

Brisbane leads the nation's capital cities by recording the highest increase in housing prices with a 27.8 per cent rise in its house price index for the year to September 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Close on its heels is Canberra ...

Platforms continue strong growth in third quarter: Assirt

... underperforming market benchmarks in the preceding couple of years. Macquarie bank's Wrap Solutions was next on the Assirt table, recording $764 million of net new flows in the quarter, although it retained ninth spot in terms of overall funds under ...

Building approvals strong: ABS

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2003
... jump in apartment approvals to their highest level in a year, with Victoria, the ACT and the Northern Territory all recording large increases. Approvals for stand-alone houses rose 3.2 per cent in September, allowing for seasonal factors, to be 9.3 per ...

Afternoon market wrap: Stronger dollar hurts stocks, lifts bonds

... the Australian market followed strong downward trends internationally overnight, with the Dow Jones and Nasdaq indices recording their biggest daily percentage drops in a month. BHP Billiton lost more than five per cent of its share price as the impact ...

Home loan affordability falls to a seven year low: AMP/REIA

... Australia and the Northern Territory experienced an improvement in home loan affordability for the June 2003 quarter, recording a rise of 1.7% and 13% respectively. The decrease in home loan affordability continued to price first homebuyers out of the ...

Housing finance for new dwellings increases 3.2% in May: ABS

... 2.1% to 5,489 whilst the purchase of new dwellings rose by 5.4% to 1,613 as did the purchase of established dwellings recording an increase of 3.8% to 47,231. The ABS said that 14.4% of all loans were to first home buyers, which is the lowest percentage ...

Midday market wrap: Australian shares edge higher

... 1.0% in broader US indexes. Energy and consumer discretionary were two sectors to lead the local market higher, both recording advances in excess of 1.0%. In other markets the Australian dollar was lower as the US dollar continued to benefit from fading ...

Growth funds record highest returns (5.8%) since December 2001: InTech survey

... negative return, fund managers at the bottom of the list for May were Tower, Portfolio Partners and Maple-Brown Abbot, all recording 0.5% returns. At the top of the list for the financial year in terms of performance were BGI at 2.5% returns, Citigroup ...