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NAB reports $1.4 billion net profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... (NAB) has reported unaudited net profits of $1.4 billion and unaudited cash earnings of $1.55 billion for the December quarter. The latter figure represented a 7% rise from the corresponding period, and was 2% above the quarterly average of the September ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... only confirmed what you, I and Irene already knew all along, that wages growth had been slowing - up 2.6% in the December quarter (the slowest gain since 1997) - or have gone backwards when you factor in inflation of 2.7%. Backwages? Oh yes sir, we knew. ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... appears that prices are starting to go backwards again as evidenced by the 0.4% decline in the GDP deflator in the December quarter from minus 0.3% in the previous quarter. Worse still, it could be that the lift in business investment and consumer spending ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... investors' love for Europe. Eurozone real GDP growth accelerated to 0.3% in the first quarter from 0.1% in the December quarter, taking the annual growth rate up to 0.5% -- the first positive year-on-year rate since the fourth quarter of 2011. You'll ...

ANZ profit on the rise in first quarter

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... higher than the previous year's $6.5 billion. The bank's provision charge for bad debts was $191 million in the December quarter, down from $322 million in the September quarter. The global wealth division continued to improve business performance through ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... her predecessor Ben Bernanke. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases December quarter overseas arrivals and departure figures while the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment is due out. In ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... of Statistics (ABS) releases December housing finance data and the residential property price indexes for the December quarter. The National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for January is also due out. In equities news, Cochlear and Bradken ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... three cents at $41.35. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will also release the retail trade figures for the December quarter and international trade in goods and services data for December. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average eased 0.03 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the retail trade figures for December/December quarter and international trade in goods and services data for December. The National Australia Bank's business survey for the December ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... per cent, or 22.83 points, to close at 1,947.59 on news that South Korean economic growth slowed in the October-December quarter. Shanghai slipped 0.47 per cent, or 9.57 points, to 2,042.18 and Hong Kong fell 1.51 per cent, or 348.35 points, to 22,733.90. ...