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New figures expected to show easing inflation

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2004
... annual inflation rate of 2.4%, is unlikely to be enough 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 ...

Rate rise will have slowed home loan demand: economists

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2004
... from the Reserve Bank of Australia last November probably slowed housing finance applications that month, according to economists. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the November housing finance for owner occupation report today. Housing finance ...

Trade deficit widens in November, expected to narrow ahead

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2004
Australia's trade deficit widened by a whisker in November but economists expect it to narrow in the months ahead as an end to the drought begins to show up in the nation's rural export receipts. The Australian balance of goods and services was a deficit ...

GDP up 1.4 percent in December quarter

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2004
... of the year as rising exports combined with resilient domestic demand to lift growth in the final quarter of 2003, economists said. The AAP economic indicator for January showed gross domestic product (GDP) was likely to grow by 1.4 per cent in the December ...

Economists expect a small rise in employment in November

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2003
Economists expect a small rise in jobs in November to have kept Australia's unemployment rate very close to the near 14-year lows it hit in October. Last month a surprise rise of 69,200 jobs pushed the unemployment rate to 5.6 per cent from 5.8 per ...

ICAP economists say interest rate hike is unwarranted

ICAP economists have said that the current strength of GDP growth does not fully warrant an interest rate hike by the RBA, saying that the GDP has grown well below trend by just 2.6 per cent over the past year. They said the non-farm inventories (contributing ...

Rate hike expected, more to come: economists

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... February, after a strengthening global and domestic economy sparked an 0.25 percentage point hike today, according to economists. They said the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.25 per cent, which ...

Homeowners, government brace for rate rise

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... expected to increase interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point - the second consecutive lift - this morning. Some economists believe the bank may even lift rates by a full half of a percentage point in an effort to reel in a rampaging property ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar pushes over 73 US cents

... "So (there was) broad based US dollar move last night." In Sydney today, the RBA announcement will take centre stage. Economists expect the central bank will hike the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.25 per cent. In other economic news, the ...

NAB predicts a 25bps increase in interest rates by the RBA

A strong GDP forecast of 1.8 per cent has led National Australia Bank (NAB) economists to predict a cash rate rise by the RBA by 25 bps to 5.25%. The RBA will meet today to deliberate on a rate change. NAB's latest data review report has indicated that ...