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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... $27.36 extra per week and, although it was 5.6 per cent, this was for a period of more than a year so that the annualised figure of about 4 per cent was slightly above inflation at that time. In international news, labour cost in the Eurozone area rose ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher following the positive US lead and robust metal prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was up 28 points at 5,904. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... seasonally adjusted basis. Concerns about the US economy continue with a downward revision of the December quarter GDP figure from 3.5 per cent to 2.2 per cent. The delinquency rate for sub-prime adjustable rate mortgages in the US has now risen from ...

Daily economic round-up

The housing finance figures for January, released yesterday, showed that there has been a slight lift in the housing market with a 2.3 per cent rise in the value of dwelling commitments and a significant 4.6 per cent rise in that of investment housing ...

Teach a man to fish: ANZ

... Australians have participated in Saver Plus since its inception. ANZ plans to deliver the same program to more than double that figure, another 1500 people, this year. Michelle Baltazar

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... given the national drought. Farm production is down by 11.2 per cent over the quarter to now be 22.8 per cent below the figure of a year ago. There has been an average growth of 4.2 per cent in employee compensation and growth in labour costs rose by ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... substitution away from the property market occurs. Australia's current account has unfortunately worsened with the latest figure representing a 20 per cent seasonally adjusted increase of $2,493 million over the fourth quarter to $15,096 million. The ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
... capital expenditure rose by only 1 per cent during the September to December quarter of last year and this resulted in the figure being 1.3 per cent down on a year earlier. The result was lessened by a 1.9 per cent fall in spending on equipment although ...

Private equity everywhere: CHAMP

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
Private equity players are now rightfully an integral part of any deal in Australia, big or small, according to Nat Childers, director of CHAMP Private Equity. Addressing attendees at the 2007 Asian Private Equity and Venture Forum, Childers painted ...

Centro to buy $6.35b US REIT

... of 27 per cent per annum for each of these 10 years," said Andrew Scott, Centro's chief executive officer. Last year the figure was more than double that with a 66 per cent total return thanks to the Heritage deal. New Plan owns interests in and manages ...