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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... ANZ newspaper job advertisements and the DEWR skilled vacancies index. The Japanese economy continues to recover from a decade of slowness with news that export volume rose to their highest level since records began in 1975. Exports form car manufacturers ...

Macquarie gives $11 million helping hand

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
Macquarie Bank Foundation and staff contributed over $11 million to more than 400 community organisations in 2006, making it one of the leading benefactors to the community sector. The Macquarie Bank Foundation aims to provide financial support as well ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... 40 per cent a couple of months ago. The winter crop is anticipated to be down by about 60 per cent to the lowest for a decade and the summer crop is forecast to down about half that amount. As a consequence the average farmer is likely to suffer a loss ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... planning and the inefficiencies of government bureaucracy are forecast to cost the nation about $65 billion over the next decade. BHP has noted that the lack of skills for its Ravensthorpe mining operation in the south of Western Australia are likely ...

FuturePlus appoints new CEO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... recently he was general manager advisory at FuturePlus. Craig Murray, chairman of FuturePlus, said, "Jim has spent more than a decade with FuturePlus and related businesses and thoroughly understands the challenges it faces in a rapidly changing regulatory ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... Economics (ABARE) now says that the winter crop will be about 60 per cent less than last year and perhaps the worst for a decade. In recent weeks the extent of the drought has been revised up from 40 to 50 per cent of the arable land in Australia. WA ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... policy will be a key feature of his economic strategy. While the resources boom has added about 47,000 jobs over the last decade, the manufacturing industry has lost about 75,000 jobs over the last two decades. ABS data released yesterday showed that ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... evidence about poor state of the US housing market which by most measures is in the worst position it has been for at least a decade and up to three. The US car manufacturing industry has also been hit by falling sales, higher fuel prices and stiff competition ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... However, it should be remembered that about 37 per cent of part-time workers want more hours of work and that in the last decade the increase in part-time work for males has been in excess of a hundred per cent and that for females it has been in excess ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
The meeting of G20 members in Melbourne has raised the perception that continued rising global interest rates may help abate world inflationary pressures being brought about by the increasing industrialisation of many developing economies. The IMF has ...