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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... June quarter production report. Minister for Climate Change Senator Penny Wong today address the Australian Business Economists on the last week's Emissions Trading Scheme Green Paper. Yesterday, the Australian share market zoomed 3.5 per cent higher ...

ABS cutbacks bad idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... consequent reduction in sample sizes and frequencies for major economic surveys has however been criticised by market economists as being potentially damaging to their ability to monitor the economy in a time of extreme volatility when rapid access to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... index was up 17 points to 5,210. In economic news, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its monthly board meeting. Economists are predicting that the RBA will keep interest rates on hold. Also today, the AI Group - PwC Australian performance manufacturing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... time since March, amid renewed worries about the financial and auto sectors, and as oil prices pushed higher. Most economists expect the US central bank to leave its base rate pegged at two per cent following a two-day meeting which kicks off on Tuesday ...

Asia will weather global slowdown: EFIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... due to growing domestic demand and rising intra Asian trade levels. Roger Donnelly, EFIC chief economist, said most economists agreed East Asian growth could fall by 1.5 per cent to 8.5 per cent in aggregate and China could shed two per cent off its ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney, takes the fight up to people arguing that our current targets are too low, that interest rates are a blunt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... lunch in Melbourne, and Federal Treasury Secretary Ken Henry gives a post-budget address to the Australian Business Economists. In data, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry releases its quarterly Small Business Survey. In equities, Macquarie ...

Labour force participation up 20 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... seasonally adjusted participation rate, which increased by 0.2 percentage points to 65.4 per cent, is the reason. For economists looking for labour supply improvements this is welcome news. There are now 10.7 million people in work in Australia compared ...

Carbon assets in valuation freefall

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... flag bearer, has even embarked on program to make carbon reduction their primary objective, raising fears among some economists it may place this goal above that of maximising economic growth. The $20 billion value loss for NSW taxpayers arguably translates ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... and US lenders, with its current debt facilities expiring by midnight tonight. In Canberra, the Australian Business Economists briefing on "Why climate policy is more like monetary policy than trade policy" is held, and in Brisbane there is a mining ...