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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
The Australian stock market was slightly higher at noon as strength in banking stocks offset a weak resources sector and a calming media sector. At 1201 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained 4.4 points to 5339.8, while the all ordinaries firmed ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... sales of new motor vehicles shows an increase in September in seasonally adjusted terms by 3.0 per cent over the August figure. However, sales are still 3 per cent below their level of a year ago. With the ABS tables it can be seen that passenger vehicle ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger following Wall Street's record high close overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0824 AEST, the December share price index contract was 22 points higher at 5323. Today the September new motor ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... industrial production by 0.6 per cent to an annual growth rate of 3.6 per cent which is significantly down on the previous figure of 6.6 per cent. Other news about a softening US economy came from the New York Fed's Empire State manufacturing index which ...

NSW bankruptcies reach record highs

The latest quarterly figures from the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia (ITSA) have shown record levels of bankruptcies in NSW with accountancy specialist Hall Chadwick warning "more bumps" are ahead. Compared to an already high 1,900 bankruptcies ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
... next meeting of the RBA increased last night when the governor, Dr Glenn Stevens, mentioned that the September quarter CPI figure due on 25 October would be a linch pin in the decision. Dr Stevens said that rising Australian inflation was due to pressures ...

Oracle predicts more IT collaboration

... separate components, but instead of each of us selling our products separately and pushing the responsibility to the banks to figure out how to make them work, we're doing that for them." This week IBM, Oracle and i-flex announced they will collaborate ...

Marketers urged to target over-50s

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
Instead of chasing the fickle Generations X and Y, superannuation marketers could take their lead from an American marketing group urging businesses to turn their attention to a far wealthier and they say just as fickle demographic group, the over-50s. ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
... September on the back of cheaper petrol prices and strong employment growth. The index increase 3.9 per cent from the August figure, which saw consumer confidence plunged to a five-year low in response to a further increase in official interest rates ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
... its Construction Index which has shown a 7.5 point increase to a score of 53.1 which is a small increase on the August figure. Above a score of 50 the Index is said to represent an expansionary phase so this result suggests a little optimism has crept ...