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Treasury warns on global recovery

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
Treasury has warned the global recovery might turn out to be more hype than substance, reinforcing the government's argument against a hefty hike in interest rates. Treasury's chief macroeconomic adviser Martin Parkinson said the global economy was ...

AMP expects strong second half earnings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
AMP Ltd's Australian Financial Services (AFS) division has enjoyed a pick up in business in the second half as the troubled group approaches the end of its demerger process. Chief executive Andrew Mohl said estimates on the value of new business flowing ...

Skilled vacancies index up 1.7% in November

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2003
Australia's jobs boom shows no sign of slowing after new figures today showed vacancies for skilled workers rose 1.7 per cent in November. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) said its skilled vacancies index rose to 114.9 in ...

Rising rates take steam out of real estate market

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2003
Rising interest rates have helped take some of the steam out of Australia's real estate market as price rises begin to show signs of plateauing and short-term speculators exit the market. Clearance rates at auctions in New South Wales over the past ...

Afternoon market wrap: shares closed mixed

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2003
The slide in the Australian share market closed mixed today, supported by stronger banking stocks, as the Australian dollar slipped back. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed one point higher at 3175.4, but the all ordinaries index gave up three points ...

Merchandise imports rise to $11.84 billion: ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2003
Merchandise imports rose three per cent in October to $11.84 billion as the higher Aussie dollar pushed down the price of imported goods. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said imports rose $350 million in the month. Imports of food and live ...

Short-term visitor arrivals dip by 2% to 423,800 during October: ABS

The number of short-term visitor arrivals during October was 423,800, a decrease of two per cent as compared with the month of September, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The majority of the visitors arrived from Europe (115,700) ...

Average weekly earnings growth slows in August: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2003
Wage growth slowed in the three months to August, new figures showed today, with the average paypacket now $928.60 a week. Hourly rates of pay rose just 0.6 per cent in the August quarter, from 2.5 per cent in the previous quarter, the Australian Bureau ...

Latest OECD data indicates moderate to strong economic global growth

The latest Composite Leading Indicators (CPI) figures for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a 30-nation organization of which Australia is a part of, has indicated that moderate to strong recovery lies ahead for the economies ...

Wage growth should continue: economists

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2003
Australian wages growth should continue following the recent drop in unemployment but it is unlikely to affect inflation, according to economists. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will report the September quarter Wage Cost Index (WCI) today, and ...