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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
In a bi-annual review of financial market stability the Reserve Bank of Australia has noted that while household mortgage arrears are increasing, they still remain at historically low levels. Indeed in excess of half of the owner occupiers analysed ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
The victory of the Iemma government in NSW over the weekend is said to be a boost to the ethanol and clean coal industries, wireless broadband providers, the transport industry and sections of the engineering and construction industries. The $310 climate ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
The Japanese economy continues to show consistently good economic signals with the national surplus rising by 7.7 per cent in February compared to a year earlier. While exports grew by 9.7 per cent over the period, the fastest rate for eight months ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Some good news on the agricultural commodities front has at last surfaced with the recent rains across the eastern seaboard improving the condition and consequently the selling prices for sheep, cattle and wheat. Sheep prices have about tripled in the ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
China has announced that its prime lending rate will rise by 0.27 per cent to 6.39 per cent which is the highest that it has been in eight years. Also increasing by the same amount is the deposit rate that now sits at 2.79 per cent. CPI Inflation in ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
National Labour force figures were released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday showing that on a seasonally adjusted basis there are now 2.9 per cent more people employed in the Australian workforce than there were a year ago and the number ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
In line with other recent optimism about the Australian economy the Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence has risen by 3.7 per cent in March to a score of 115.5 points, its highest level since August 2005. Just over 4 per cent of ...

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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 ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
The US economy has continued to receive news indicating some serious danger signs as the second largest supplier of home lending facilities to those with poor credit histories, the New Century Financial Corp, has ceased making new loans and announced ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
The good work done by the Productivity Commission with another seminal report addressing the issue of Australia's capacity to improve and match the performance of the likes of the US has been released. The paper notes that while some European countries ...