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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
When the Reserve Bank meets today to consider the economy and whether or not they should raise interest rates, some pressure against an upward move has come from the survey of the construction industry by the Master Builders Association. The index of ...

Less confusion, more clarity on managed accounts: IMAP

Competing players from Australia's fast growing managed accounts sector will join forces to present the public with a uniform set of terminologies and help clarify the confusion surrounding the different managed account products. Around 40 industry ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
Data on the number of job vacancies was released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday revealing that on a seasonally adjusted basis the national figure stood at 154,000 in August, up by 11 per cent from the corresponding quarter last year. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on a positive lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0737 AEST, the December share price index contract was up nine points at 5,117. Today, federal treasurer Peter Costello will ...

Smooth swimming for AUI Platypus

Six months on since wealth manager Australian Unity Investments (AUI) sealed a 50-50 joint venture with top performing boutique fund manager Platypus, the newly formed AUI Platypus Australian Equities Trust continues to beat the market. Speaking at ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
The acting executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Karen Schneider, said that earnings from commodity exports are expected to increase by 14 per cent to $140 billion in 2006-07, of which minerals and energy ...

Australians clueless on super

The raft of education campaigns around superannuation are yet to make their impact on consumers after a new study found that 60 per cent of Australians don't know how much fees they pay on their super while 16 per cent couldn't name their own super ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
Further evidence of a slowing Australian economy came yesterday with the release of ABS figures for the August sales of new cars, which fell by 2.3 per cent. Analysis of the data shows that passenger vehicle sales fell by 1.1 per cent, other vehicles ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
The headline news over the weekend was the G7 meeting in Singapore where the world's seven richest nations met to discuss current and future economic hurdles. The group sees its member countries continuing to steam ahead in the high energy prices environment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index rose 12.5 per cent to a score of 101.2 following a 16.2 per cent fall after the last interest rate rise. The improvement in the index is being seen a s a consequence of the improvement in petrol ...