Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 631 - 640 of 741 results for "March quarter"

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2006
... business Tower will reveal first half earnings. On the economics front the Australian Bureau of Statistics release March quarter house price indexes. NEW YORK - US stocks staged a last-minute rebound amid a broad sell-off in commodity prices that quelled ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... - showed little upward pressure on inflation from wages. The wage price index (WPI) rose by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter and 4 per cent over the year. These are less than market expectations for a quarterly rise on 1 per cent and a year-on-year ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
... indicates that little upward pressure on inflation from wages. The wage price index (WPI) rose by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter and 4 per cent over the year. These are less than market expectations for a quarterly rise on 1 per cent and a year-on-year ...

AMP puts pedal to the metal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
... emphatic revival continues, with the company reporting a 29 per cent increase in cash inflows to $2.66 billion in the March quarter. Net cash flows came in at $341 million, nearly triple the $115 million reported in the previous corresponding period. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
... including ANZ Job Ads and the Cashcard retail Index while the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals March and march quarter retail trade data. NEW YORK - US stocks rallied after slower-than-expected job growth in April hinted at a possible pause in ...

Daily Economic Update

... economic growth without pushing up inflation. The bad news is that unit labour costs jumped by 2.5 per cent in the March quarter. This is more than double market expectations and follows a sharp 3 per cent rise in the previous quarter. Compensation per ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
... petrol, there are still no signs of it feeding through to core inflation, which remained at 1.7 per cent in the March quarter. But what is done is done, market speculation now will be whether the RBA will lift rates again, especially following an expected ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2006
... the central bank should raise rates from the current 5.50 per cent. As well, National Australia Bank unveils its March quarter business and agribusiness surveys. NEW YORK - US stocks fell, reversing course just before the end of the trading session ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... a particular significance in light of the higher than expected Australian headline CPI inflation report for the March quarter. Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data showing that domestic consumer prices increased by 0.9 per ...

Daily economic update

Australian headline consumer prices rose by a slightly higher-than-expected 0.9 per cent in the March quarter taking the annual inflation rate to 3 per cent - right at the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of Australia's 2-3 per cent target band. Financial ...