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David Jones says Q2 sales up 3.3%

Australian upmarket retailer David Jones Ltd said today that it is on track to meet its 2003/04 sales growth forecast of 1.5-25 per cent after second quarter sales rose by 3.3 per cent. The company said that first half sales were up 2.8 per cent from ...

ANZ newspaper job ads rise 2.3% in Jan

Australian newspaper job advertisements rose 2.3 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in January to 20,783 a week - its sharpest increase in eight months. The January figures follows a revised 6.9 per cent fall in December and 0.8 per cent slip in November ...

LPTs to benefit from strong retail sales

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2004
Analysts expect that a surge in retail sales figures for 2003 will have boosted the incomes of listed property trusts (LPTs) this reporting season. The Australian Bureau of Statistics today released the final retail sales figures for 2003, showing growth ...

Retail sales drop 0.6% in December

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2004
Retail sales dipped for the first time in a year in December, following two back-to-back interest rate rises, new figures showed today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said retail trade fell 0.6% in December, following a revised increase of ...

Stocks increasingly popular with Australians: ASX

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
More Australians now directly own shares and are more active and committed participants, a survey released today found. The Australian Stock Exchange's (ASX) 2003 Share Ownership Study (SOS) showed 51% of 2,402 adults surveyed own shares - the equivalent ...

Building approvals slide for second month in a row

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
Building approvals slid for the second month in a row in December, new figures showed today, indicating two back-to-back interest rate rises have taken some steam out of the housing market. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said building approvals ...

Inflation rises 0.4% in January: report

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
Australian prices for consumers goods and services rose 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 ...

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% ...