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Home building surged in December quarter: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2004
Home building activity surged in the three months to December, new figures showed today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said the number of new homes begun in the December quarter rose more than eight per cent, above analysts' expectations. ...

Cooper charged with three more counts in relation to HIH

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
Entrepreneur and former Collingwood Football Club director Brad Cooper has been charged with three more counts over the collapsed insurance company HIH, making 13 counts in total. Cooper was initially charged with 10 counts in December, after the Australian ...

Property investment loans plunge in January: ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
New loans to property investors plunged 15.5% in January, figures showed today, confirming higher interest rates have cooled interest in the housing market. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said borrowing for property investment fell for the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2004
The Australian dollar recovered some ground at the start of trading today after last week falling to its lowest since December. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was trading at $US0.7365-70 compared with Friday's close of 0.7281/86. The Australian share ...

Housing finance figures point to continued market cooling

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2004
New figures today point to a continued cooling in the property market in the wake of the latest two increases in mortgage rates. Housing finance figures for owner occupied homes dipped 8.1% in January, following interest rate increases in November and ...

Housing affordability down in December

Housing affordability for first-time home buyers fell 8.4%, reaching a record low in the December quarter, according to a report released yesterday by the Commonwealth Bank and the Housing Industry Association. Figures from the survey indicate that ...

Consumer inflation expectations fall in March

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2004
Australian consumers expectations of inflation in the coming year fell for the second consecutive month to 3.6% in March, a survey showed. The Melbourne Institute Consumer Inflationary Expectations survey said the result followed a sharp rise in January ...

Consumer sentiment falls from nine-year high: Westpac

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2004
The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment fell by 3.8% this month, seasonally adjusted, from a nine-year high reached in February. All components of the index fell this month. Consumers were the least optimistic about family finances ...

Leap year boosts February retail figures: Cashcard

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2004
An extra day thanks to the leap year helped Australian retail spending levels nudge higher in February but the shortest month in the calendar remains the lowest one for turnover, research found. The Cashcard Retail Activity Index showed retail spending ...

February newspaper job ads posts biggest rise in nine months

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2004
The number of Australian job advertisement in major metropolitan newspapers recorded their strongest increase in nine months, climbing 6.4% in February to a seasonally adjusted 22,119 a week. The ANZ Australian newspaper job advertisements survey found ...