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| | | ... generally encouraging, with the capacity utilisation rate rising, despite some pull-back in capital expenditure, while forward orders were steady in positive territory for the month." Still, the latest survey found the business/consumer divide remains ... |
| | | | ... the sub-indices, improvements were recorded in: trading conditions (+17 from +13); profitability (+7 from +4); forward orders (+8 from +2); stocks (+2 from +1) and exports (+2 from +1). The employment sub-index fell to a reading of +1 in September from ... |
| | | | ... May to +12 in June. The details of the survey showed strong gains in employment (+4 in June from +1 in May) and forward orders (+4 from +2) and continuing improvement in exports (+2 from +1) and profitability (+12 from +11). The fall in the "stocks" ... |
| | | | ... optimistic on balance - a positive sign indicates more optimists than pessimists - and the lead from the survey of forward orders - a steady improvement from minus 2 in October to plus 2 in November to plus 4 in December - portend continued Australian ... |
| | | | ... at the time of the survey. The NAB survey's forward indicators paint a rosier picture for the domestic economy: Forward orders increased by 6 to a reading of plus 4 in October - "above the long-run average for the monthly series, suggesting near term ... |
| | | | ... 20-year history and even lower than the confidence reading recorded in the 1990/91 recession. The survey's measure of forward orders, trading conditions, profitability, export sales and employment all remained in negative territory. One ray of sunshine ... |
| | | | ... following sharp falls earlier in 2008. However, while profit and trading conditions rose slightly during the month, forward orders remained in negative territory - one reason, perhaps, for the continued weakening in employment intentions since late 2007. ... |
| | | | ... points to +11 which is the level of mid 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 ... |
| | | | ... employment up 2 points to +8 points. NAB says that despite the good news on recent activity indicators, the level of forward orders remains low and is trending down. Mining is still reporting the strongest overall conditions and personal and recreational ... |
| | | | ... in the survey, by the record rate of capacity utilisation, strong employment growth and little sign of reduced forward orders, he said. The survey found that weaker confidence levels were due to recent very high oil prices and the failure to achieve ... |
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