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Credit card charges hit record $14.7 billion in December

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2004
Australia's Christmas credit card binge hit record levels in December as consumers ignored rising interest rates in favour of spending up big, figures released today show. Australians put an all-time record $14.68 billion on the plastic in December ...

Merchandise imports down in January: ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
Merchandise imports dropped in January to $9.942 billion, new figures showed today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said imports fell 9.6% in the month, from $10.998 billion in December. Imports of food and live animals fell to $408 million ...

Property investment down: ABS

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
Property investors appear to be retreating following back-to-back interest rate rises last year, with new figures today showing another fall in investment lending in December. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said borrowing for property investment ...

FTA $4 billion benefit figure should be revised: expert

The government needed to revise a $4 billion figure it used to quantify economic benefits of the Australia-US free trade agreement (FTA), an international economist said today. In recent days, some ministers have put the economic benefit of the deal ...

David Jones says Q2 sales up 3.3%

Australian upmarket retailer David Jones Ltd said today that it is on track to meet its 2003/04 sales growth forecast of 1.5-25 per cent after second quarter sales rose by 3.3 per cent. The company said that first half sales were up 2.8 per cent from ...

ANZ newspaper job ads rise 2.3% in Jan

... a revised 6.9 per cent fall in December and 0.8 per cent slip in November 2003. Despite the strong results, this year's figure is 0.2 per cent lower than January last year. ANZ also said the underlying trend in newspaper job advertisements remains moderately ...

LPTs to benefit from strong retail sales

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2004
Analysts expect that a surge in retail sales figures for 2003 will have boosted the incomes of listed property trusts (LPTs) this reporting season. The Australian Bureau of Statistics today released the final retail sales figures for 2003, showing growth ...

Retail sales drop 0.6% in December

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2004
Retail sales dipped for the first time in a year in December, following two back-to-back interest rate rises, new figures showed today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said retail trade fell 0.6% in December, following a revised increase of ...

Stocks increasingly popular with Australians: ASX

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
More Australians now directly own shares and are more active and committed participants, a survey released today found. The Australian Stock Exchange's (ASX) 2003 Share Ownership Study (SOS) showed 51% of 2,402 adults surveyed own shares - the equivalent ...

Building approvals slide for second month in a row

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
Building approvals slid for the second month in a row in December, new figures showed today, indicating two back-to-back interest rate rises have taken some steam out of the housing market. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said building approvals ...