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CPI down 2.4% in year to December 2003

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2004
Inflation dropped slightly to 2.4% in the year to December despite strong rises in the prices of food and holidays. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said prices rose 0.5% in the three months to December, giving an annual inflation rate of 2.4%, down ...

New figures expected to show easing inflation

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2004
... to see off another rise in rates some time early this year. Economists predict the December quarter Consumer Price Index (CPI) will rise 0.5%, giving an annual inflation rate of 2.4%, down from 2.6%. This would sit well within the Reserve Bank of Australia's ...

Midday Market wrap: $A weaker at noon, bonds firmer

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2003
... greenback early in the overnight session, following weaker US inflation figures which pushed the US currency lower. Headline CPI fell 0.2 per cent in November, which was interpreted as meaning the chances of a rate hike in the US was reduced. With US ...

Morning Market Wrap: $A rises to fresh six-year high overnight

... that very much over the last two or three weeks. "The (US) market (was) ignoring good US data and focusing a bit on their CPI (consumer price index) numbers, which were softer than expected - both the core and the headline numbers were negative, and ...

Macfarlane optimistic on GDP growth in 2004

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2003
... would be largely due to a higher exchange rate of the Australian dollar, he said. "Over the course of 2004, we expect the CPI to increase by 2.0 per cent, but in mid-2004 it could well be below that because the maximum effect of the higher Australian ...

RBA moves to increase interest rates by 25 basis points

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... these exchange rate effects are likely to reduce the inflation rate further." "Once these effects started to fade, however, CPI inflation is expected to be on a rising trajectory given the strength of economic demand, firming labour intentions and continuing ...

Latest OECD data indicates moderate to strong economic global growth

The latest Composite Leading Indicators (CPI) figures for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a 30-nation organization of which Australia is a part of, has indicated that moderate to strong recovery lies ahead for the economies ...

Qantas super changes consultant

... credited earnings rates in the past two years, compared with the longer-term objective of a three per cent return over the CPI on rolling three- and five-year periods.

CPI within the medium-term inflation target band: Costello

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has said that the latest CPI data shows that inflation remains moderate with the 0.6 per cent increase in the September quarter and the 2.6% increase for the year to September reflecting that the CPI is within the medium-term ...

ABS announces a 0.6% increase in the September quarter's CPI

There has been a 0.6 per cent increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the September quarter of 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The bureau also said that the CPI had increased 2.6% for the year to September. The highest ...