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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... means that whilst Australia has now experienced 22 quarters of consecutive growth this tallied to the lowest annual growth figure since 2001. The Western Australian economy grew at 5.6 per cent, or an annual rate of 14 per cent, and Queensland grew at ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... of apartments approved, which occurred mostly in Victoria. The number of apartment approvals is notoriously a volatile figure because of the effect of occasional multi-unit developments. The ABS also announced that gross company operating profits increased ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... to point to a slowdown in the economy. There were only 128,000 jobs created in August which was slightly up on the July figure of 121,000. About 140,000 jobs a month were created up to August although this is significantly behind the monthly figure of ...

NZ Super Fund scores big but cautions on the future

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has posted better than expected returns for the third year in a row but has cautioned that its current level of performance will not be sustainable over the long term. The NZ fund, the equivalent to Australia's Future ...

Five major banks spend six times more on ads than super sector

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
Bank spending on advertising for traditional, super and insurance products surged during the June 2006 quarter to its highest level in years, according to estimates compiled by AC Nielsen. The five largest banks spent an aggregate $45.5 million on print ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... cent over the June quarter. The annual growth in business investment is now 18.4 per cent which is down on the previous figure of 29.9 per cent and follows four years of double-digit growth. While capital expenditure on buildings rose 7.2 per cent, mostly ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... sales over the entire retail industry in July. Turnover is now up 6.2 per cent on a year to date basis versus the annual figure of 3.9 per cent achieved last year. Victoria was the only state not to experience an increase and the best growth was in Western ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
The Australian automotive industry continues to struggle with the latest figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries showing that, following the reduction in tariffs to 10 per cent from 15 per cent in January 2005, locally made light cars ...

XPLAN in demand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... growth expected as profitability ramps up. Adjusted profit for the group of $14.2 million was up on the previous half's figure of $11.8 million. But the key figure was XPAN revenues, which rose by 68 per cent in the second half of the financial year ...

MLC launches into after-tax reporting

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... financial position by showing what the client will actually receive in their pocket, rather than a generic performance figure," he said. After-tax returns will be reported in two ways - before redemption (amount receivable if only the net distributions ...