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House price index surges 5% in June quarter: ABS

... March quarter, and 18.1% for the year to June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The house price index for Sydney rose 3.9% for the quarter and 20.6% for the year, whilst for Melbourne the figures were 4.2% and 10% respectively, 7.9% ...

Westpac tops global sustainability index for second year running

Westpac leads the global banking community on corporate sustainability, according to the 2003-04 Dow Jones Sustainability Index, released this afternoon. "Obviously we are very pleased," a Westpac spokesperson told the Financial Standard. "We are committed ...

National wage cost index rises 0.6% in the June quarter: ABS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released the latest figures on Australia's wage cost index for the June quarter, revealing a 0.6 per cent increase from the previous quarter. The change for the year was also highlighted as being 3.6% ...

Morning market wrap: US bonds under more pressure

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2003
... two bonds ballooned to 362 points and the widest margin in over a decade. Second quarter GDP and payrolls and the ISM index for July are all scheduled for release this week. The rise in yields continues to hamper stocks, despite the latest round of earnings ...

Producer price index for final commodities rises 1.4% for the year: ABS

The Australian producer prices index for final commodities saw a drop of 0.4 per cent during the June quarter, but rose 1.4% for the year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. For the June quarter, the domestic commodity producer price ...

Import trade price index dips 5% for the June quarter: ABS

Australia's import price index for all groups of products and services dipped by five per cent for the June 2003 quarter as compared with the March 2003 quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The ABS also said that the percentage ...

Morning Market Wrap: US Stocks End Lower

... prompted some investors to take profits, despite news the University of Michigan has revised up its consumer sentiment index for June. In European trade on Friday the FTSE 100 closed at 4,067.8, up 26.1 points (0.7%). Gains were led by blue-chip growth ...

House prices rise by 3.4% in March quarter: ABS

... an average increase of 21.9% from March 2002 to March 2003. The figures also showed the weighted average house price index for eight capital cities across Australia was 18%. For the year, Sydney recorded the second highest rise with 20.9% followed by ...

Hedge funds trail broader indices in April: Hennessee

... highs in unemployment, and a lack of pricing power," Gradante added. The Hennessee Latin America was the top performing index for the second month in a row with a return of 14.61%, Hennessee said. The second best performer was the Financial Equities ...

12 month Managed Futures Index returns at 38.63%: Tremont

... returned 38.63 per cent over the past 12 months and 6.43% in the last month along, according to the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index for February. The returns are sharply higher than the Index's next best performing hedge fund, Global Macro, which returned ...