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Weekly Economic Roundup

Last week's battery of domestic economic reports did nothing to alter the prevailing view over Australian monetary policy settings. If anything, they strengthened investors' conviction that local interest rates will remain steady at 5.5 per cent in ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

Australian financial markets produced a lacklustre performance last week as the US celebrated a Thanksgiving holiday-shortened week. Domestic trading activity was uneventful throughout the week with only the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) new ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

Australian financial markets produced a positive performance during last week's trading activity. A strong uptrend in gold and copper prices supported the Australian dollar, rising to US$0.735 at the close of last week's trading after opening at US$0.728. ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

The Australian dollar's continued decline dominated domestic financial market activity last week. The local currency fell to US$0.7297 last Friday morning before closing just above the US$0.7300 mark. The A$ slid to its lowest level in a year on the ...

Economic Roundup

Last week's financial market activity saw the Australian dollar drop below US74 cents for the first time in four months. A combination of weaker-than-expected domestic economic data and a narrowing Australian/US interest rate spread triggered the sell-off ...

Economic Roundup

Increased volatility continued to be the name of the game during last week's financial market trading activity. Inflation and its attendant consequence on monetary policy - read higher interest rates -- remained the major cause for recent investor trepidation. ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

Inflation and interest rates continued to be the dominant theme at last week's financial market trading activity in Australia. A surprise jump in US headline consumer price inflation - and its implication for more aggressive interest rate hikes by the ...

Daily Economic Roundup

Domestic economy - The latest National Australia Bank (NAB) business survey showed that business confidence dropped to 1 in the third quarter - the lowest since the first quarter of 2001 - from 2.8 in the previous three-month period. The fall in confidence ...

Weekly economic roundup

After a strong start, the Australian stock market again succumbed to the negative lead from Wall Street, with the S&P/ASX 200 index down by 34.5 points, or 0.8 per cent at the close of last week's trading. While investors largely ignored reports of ...

Weekly economic roundup

To paraphrase the soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, 'Beware the Ides of October,' because the largest market crashes in history (1929 and 1987) happened in October and even 2005 has just felt the same winds. As if on cue, the advent of October ...