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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... Bulletin. The Melbourne Institute will release both the index of consumer inflation expectations as well as its quarterly wages report. In equities news, Lion Nathan Ltd release its interim results, as does Peptech. AMP Ltd, Petsec Energy, and Iluka ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
With a tight labour market and skills shortages pumping up wages, commercial pilots look to be next to join the mile-high club in wages growth, adding to recent burgeoning national wages growth. Australia's wages are said to have grown at a record pace ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... is particularly good news for the many small businesses that have almost gone to the wall after paying material costs and wages for government contracts while their invoices remained unpaid for months on end. But according to independent think tank ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... wage increase data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that on a seasonally adjusted basis total public sector wages rose by 4.1 per cent in the year to November last year and this was largely driven by a 4.1 per cent increase in Commonwealth ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... months compared to last year. The Chinese labour market felt the downstream effect of the economic activity with minimum wages rising by up to 17 per cent in Shenzhen about 9 per cent in Shanghai in 20006. In the US the University of Michigan consumer ...

Daily economic round-up

... rises that occurred late last year is reflected in buoyed consumer confidence. The DEWR data for the fourth quarter of 2006 wages for new enterprise agreements showed they increased at an annual average rate of 3.8 per cent which although below other ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... and the employment in residential construction now having had 11 straight months of decline. While employment is slowing, wages growth has, like that in Australia and China been at record levels although this is now likely to decline. China has announced ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
... to December last year from a year earlier was 4 per cent which was composed of a 3.8 per cent increase in private sector wages and one of 4.5 per cent in public sector wages. While the private sector wages growth was unchanged from the earlier quarter ...

Singapore CPF contribs now 34.5 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
... contribution rates for the Singapore Central Provident Fund (CPF) by 1.5 per cent to near its maximum limit of 36 per cent of total wages. A statement released by the CPF said, "With the economy doing well, it is timely to re-tune the balance of our ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... is released as is, Melbourne Institute index of consumer inflation expectations, Melbourne Institute February quarterly wages report and RBA releases its February monthly bulletin. On the equities front, first half results will be released by Telstra ...