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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... over the last six months. The US economy grew by only 1.6 per cent in the September quarter which was down on the June figure of 2.6 per cent and the 5.6 per cent from the March quarter of this year. Residential construction has fallen more than 17 per ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The recent uplift in consumer sentiment as measured by the Westpac survey has not been transferred into much buoyancy in retail sales, as indicated by the ABS monthly release of the data yesterday. Retail sales grew by just 0.1 per cent in seasonally ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... which has been on a downward spiral for three decades and negative since 2002-03, was 0.7 per cent in 2005-06, up from the figure of -1.9 per cent in the previous year. During 2005-06 the largest contribution to GDP by industry came from Property & business ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
... annual growth of 15.9 per cent which is down on the 16.2 and 17.4 per cent figures of the previous two months and the lowest figure since December 2005. Other personal credit at 9.5 per cent annual growth is about thirty per cent down on the levels of ...

It's a wrap for UK pensions: Zurich

... group's wrap business has topped $3 billion in funds under administration and expects its new QROPS will help increase that figure. "The UK pension initiative and other recent product enhancements, combined with Zurich Australia's value-add adviser servicing ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
The Australian stock market was stronger at noon with big gains from takeover target Rinker Group and Rio Tinto driving the bourse upwards. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 27 points to 5385.5?, while the all ordinaries gained 24 points ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... from the US revealed that the US economy grew by only 1.6 per cent in the September quarter which was down on the June figure of 2.6 per cent and the 5.6 per cent from the March quarter. Residential construction has fallen more than 17 per cent during ...

Currency managers pray for Cruise antics

The latest State Street Global Research weekly report noted that the market lull in currencies is making foreign exchange (FX) traders wish that the markets would 'jump the couch', or exhibit strange, volatile behaviour a la Tom Cruise. "A lack of volatility ...

Fix debt ahead of rate rise: ANZFP

With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) likely to increase interest rates next month and possibly in March after the latest inflation figures were released, ANZ Financial Planning's general manager, Mike Goodall, has urged consumers to re-evaluate ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... between 4 and 7.7 per cent depending upon the stage of production have increased the likelihood of the national CPI inflation figure due tomorrow having an effect on the next RBA meeting of November 7. Whilst the increases represent increases to production ...