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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Pressure will be on the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates tomorrow when it meets. Last weeks announcement that building approvals by municipal councils rose by 6.1 per cent in September to produce a year on year growth in total dwellings ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
Overnight news from the US revealed that the US economy grew by only 1.6 per cent in the September quarter which was down on the June figure of 2.6 per cent and the 5.6 per cent from the March quarter. Residential construction has fallen more than 17 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after the Dow Jones hit another record closing high on Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0721 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 13 points at 5,392. Today, Sims Group ...

Fix debt ahead of rate rise: ANZFP

With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) likely to increase interest rates next month and possibly in March after the latest inflation figures were released, ANZ Financial Planning's general manager, Mike Goodall, has urged consumers to re-evaluate ...

RBC Dexia appoints new Aussie head

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
RBC Dexia Investor Services has a new head and managing director for its Australian operations as outgoing head Alex Muto prepares to transition into a new role in the company. Head of technical sales, Scott MacDonald, will step up to lead the company ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
The recently released Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey showed that about a half of business executives expect prices to increase in the fourth quarter of this year and all sectors except wholesaling expect a negative growth in profits. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
The Director General of the 140 member World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, has moved the deadline for several key countries to accede to opening up their agricultural markets more to March of next year following frictions at the Cairns round of 18 ...

Aust Unity integrates and posts solid profit growth

Funds management, health and retirement group Australian Unity has posted a pre-tax profit of $28.2 million for the year ended June 2006, up 42 per cent from $19.8 million in the previous year. The results included the first full year contribution from ...

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 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
The monthly survey of business confidence by NAB fell four points in August to a score of six having apparently peaked in March of this year at 14. The three components of the index were down with the sales index falling one point, the profitability ...