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Domestic economic outlook improving: Costello

The outlook for Australia's economy was improving after a disappointing June quarter, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said today. Official figures last week showed the economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in the June quarter, with exports savaged by the ...

Father's Day facts: some interesting data produced by the ABS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has said that in June 2003, an estimated 1,764,100 men were husbands and partners with children under 15 years in Australia. These men had the highest rate of labour force participation of 93 per cent (that ...

Adler pleads not guilty to manipulation charges

Disgraced former HIH director Rodney Adler today pleaded not guilty to charges of stockmarket manipulation. But Mr Adler's lawyers foreshadowed that they would be asking for a permanent stay on the proceedings, which they said was an abuse of process. ...

House price index surges 5% in June quarter: ABS

The average established house price index has risen 5 per cent for the June quarter as compared with the March quarter, and 18.1% for the year to June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The house price index for Sydney rose 3.9% ...

Australian service industries pick up pace of activity: survey

Australian service industries have picked up the pace of activity, according to an inaugural survey published by the first Australian Industry Group - Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI), which had risen 0.5 points to 55.5 ...

Domestic wines sales rise 5.1% for the year: ABS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has announced that the quantity of domestic wine sales had increased 5.1 per cent for the year, and 0.8% from June to July to 34.6 million litres. The volume of white table wine sales was 17.47 million litres ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries rise 0.45%

The All Ordinaries rose 0.45 per cent value in trading at close this afternoon as the ABS said that the housing price index has surged by 5.1% for the June quarter and the service industries has picked up the pace of activity, as revealed in a survey ...

Midday market wrap: $A slips below 64 US cents

Japan's key Nikkei average was off opening highs by mid-morning on Thursday as buying of several exporters lost steam after the yen rose to a three-and-a-half month high against the US dollar. The Nikkei rose 0.4% while the Hang Seng gained 0.65%. Meanwhile ...

Retail trade increases 0.8% to $15.12 billion in July: ABS

Retail Trade in Australia had reached $15.12 billion in July, reflecting an increase of 0.8 per cent in value compared with the month of June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said. This follows revised increases of 1.2% in June 2003 and 0.2% ...

Interest rates on hold for 15th month in a row

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has opted to leave interest rates on hold for the 15 th consecutive month. The central bank board had met yesterday as the national accounts reported a meagre growth rate of 0.1 per cent in the June quarter, which ...