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Building approvals slide again in January: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
Building approvals slid for the third month in a row in January, new figures showed today, confirming last year's interest rate rises have taken some steam out of the housing market. But separate Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showed ...

Current account improves marginally in Q4

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
... $12.01 billion, from an upwardly revised $12.09 billion in September, was substantially above market expectations and the third-highest on record in dollar terms. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said farm exports jumped 7% in the quarter but were ...

Australians save pennies in anticipation of rate rise: Wizard

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
... lender Wizard Homes today shows half of 500 respondents believe the RBA will raise interest rates tomorrow. And more than a third already have cut down on spending in order to redirect money into their mortgage. According to 85% of survey respondents ...

Australia second cheapest place to do business

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2004
... industrialised countries. Australia's cost-competitiveness was second only to Canada, with Europe and the United Kingdom tied for third. KPMG's 2004 Competitive Alternatives study measured 27 cost components such as labour, taxes and utilities, when ...

Home lending falls off in December

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
New home loans fell for the third month in a row in December as back-to-back interest rate hikes began to bite. But economists said the fall would not be enough to deter the Reserve Bank from raising rates again in coming months, given the overall strength ...

Unilever switches strategy as FitzGerald goes

... posted full-year profit at the top end of forecasts but admitted it would fall short of meeting its sales target. The world's third-largest food group, home to Slim.Fast weight-loss aids, Ragu sauces and Hellmann's mayonnaise, said it would switch to ...

Backlash continues over free trade agreement

Thousands of manufacturing jobs could be at risk under the trade deal signed between Australia and the United States, the ACTU has warned. Sugar farmers have already expressed outrage at the free trade agreement, which largely protects the price of ...

ANZ newspaper job ads rise 2.3% in Jan

... January, the survey found, Tasmania posted the largest increase of 14.5 per cent. In New South Wales, job ads fell for the third consecutive month to be down 2.1 per cent after a revised 6.3 per cent decline in December. AAP

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 ...

Super funds growth doubles in Q3 2003

Annual growth in Australian superannuation funds under management accelerated to almost 9% in the third quarter of 2003, nearly double the rate of growth recorded in the previous quarter. Australian superannuation funds grew to a total of $549,669 million ...