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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has again revised its estimates of the impact of the national drought which is now expected to impact about 60 per cent of the nation's arable land as opposed to the forecast of 40 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
The latest Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey reveals a continuing level of pessimism among business executives with more than a third anticipating a fall in profits for the coming March quarter compared to that of a year earlier. Fuelling ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The release of the latest national accounts data shows that the seasonally adjusted final consumption expenditure measure of GDP grew by only 0.3 per cent over the last quarter to take the annual tally to 2.2 per cent. Positive or negative contributions ...

Anti-phishing industry code needed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
Banks may have to abandon email as a customer communication method unless an industry-wide code of practice for electronic communications is designed. Neil Campbell, chief executive officer of network security firm Network Box, said it is unfair of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
The meeting of G20 members in Melbourne has raised the perception that continued rising global interest rates may help abate world inflationary pressures being brought about by the increasing industrialisation of many developing economies. The IMF has ...

Mobile age drives up demand for storage: Abacus

With an increasing number of people moving house or traveling frequently overseas, more investors are turning their attention to the untapped potential of the self storage industry, according to Abacus Property Group. The group manages Abacus Storage ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
The US economy has received good news about the abatement of inflation with the release of consumer and producer price data showing that the consumer index fell by 0.5 per cent in September and that producer prices fell by 1.3 per cent largely as a ...

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 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
At the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries, Argentina and Brazil have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection. Prime Minister John Howard said last night that whilst Australia's subsidies ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on a positive lead from Wall Street after the seventh straight day of lower oil prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 39 points to 5005 at 0722 ...