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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... Manpower/Melbourne Institute Employment Report for July is due, and the Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment is expected to be released. In Canberra, the Federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations releases its monthly ...

Economic round-up: Business up, sentiment down

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
Despite continued buoyancy in business activity, consumer sentiment took a tumble in June as Australia's optimism towards future family finances and the economy begins to wane. The May NAB Business survey showed a continuation of elevated business activity ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... Industry Association new home sales data for April is expected out. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment is also due. The Australian stock market closed in positive territory yesterday buoyed by strong gains in the resource sector ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... S&P 500 seven straight weeks of gains and pushing the Dow to a record close, as more takeover activity and consumer sentiment data improved the outlook for equities. A gauge of consumer sentiment rose more than expected in May, despite rising gasoline ...

Economic round-up: Money cant buy you love

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... and general economic conditions. But they seemingly don't want to share the credit with the Government. The Consumer Sentiment Index measures an average of five indices reflecting respondents' appraisal of their family finances over the past and coming ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... release the labour price index for the March quarter while Westpac/Melbourne Institute releases their index of consumer sentiment. The Future Fund chairman, David Murray, speaks at the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In share market news ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
... share price index contract was trading up 21 points to 6,257. Today, the Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment is expected to be released. In equities, regional television provider Austar releases its first quarter results along with ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... drug maker Merck & Co. The advances came as merger and acquisition news overpowered a report revealing that consumer sentiment has plummeted to an eight-month low. The S&P 500 has now made a full recovery from all of its losses since February, when a ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... importance of problems in the US housing market continue with news that the the Conference Board's index of consumer sentiment fell from 111.2 in February to 107.2. The percentage of respondents anticipating fewer jobs increased from 14.2 to 16.5 per ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... by up to 17 per cent in Shenzhen about 9 per cent in Shanghai in 20006. In the US the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index decreased to a score of 88.8 in March having risen to 91.3 in February. The index reflects growing concern in the US ...