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Inflation rises 0.4% in January: report

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
... 0.4% in January, a report said. The TD Securities-Melbourne Institute Experimental Monthly Inflation Gauge said the firmer figure followed a flat result in December, to be 2.3% higher than a year earlier. Over the three months to January, the annualised ...

US GDP growth slows in Q4

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
US economic growth slowed to a 4% annual rate in the closing three months of 2003, less than half the third-quarter pace as consumers curbed their spending, the Commerce Department reported on Friday. The fourth-quarter expansion in gross domestic product ...

Foreign investment surges in Australian property market

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2004
The relatively low Australian dollar has been a boon for overseas investors, who snapped up $1.19 billion worth of Australian houses and apartments last financial year. That was nearly double the $631 million worth of dwellings the Foreign Investment ...

New figures expected to show easing inflation

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2004
New figures today are expected to show an easing in inflation, providing one less trigger for the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates again. However, the expected easing of December quarter inflation, giving a predicted annual inflation rate of 2.4% ...

New lending figures point to cooling economy

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2004
New lending figures today pointed to a further slowing of the Australian economy, with a sizeable drop in commerce finance in November. ABS figures found commercial finance lending down 18.30%, seasonally adjusted, in November following a large rise ...

Housing finance falls 3.9% in November

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2004
New figures today pointed to a further cooling in the housing market, with a drop in owner-occupied housing finance in November. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said the total housing finance commitments in November were down 3.%, seasonally adjusted ...

Jobs figures strengthen expectations of further rate hike

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2004
Better-than-expected jobs growth in December strengthened expectations of a further rate hike next month as figures showed unemployment remained at 14-year lows. Treasurer Peter Costello said the December jobless rate of 5.6%, the same as November ...

Unemployment rate 5.6% in December: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2004
The jobless rate for December remained steady at a 14-year low of 5.6%, new figures showed today. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that total employment rose by 29,600 to 9.66 million, on a seasonally adjusted basis. Full-time ...

Exports drop on back of dollar/drought

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2004
Australia's export success story is coming to an end with new figures showing large drops in sales to key markets including Asia over the past two years. A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade report into exports of primary and manufactured products ...

ANZ job ads fall 10.7 percent

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2004
Australian job advertisement in major metropolitan newspapers fell 10.7 per cent in December to their lowest levels since April 2003. The fall in the ANZ job ad figures follows seven consecutive increases, but was still 0.9 per cent higher than the ...