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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... months of weak results. The St George-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry index of business conditions reported that wages growth was the highest on record during the December quarter. The NAB survey noted that there was now an annual growth ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... inception of the new industrial relations regime. During the year to August 2006 seasonally adjusted total public sector wages rose by 4.6 per cent and these were largely driven by a 16.3 per cent increase in those of the Commonwealth government which ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... incomes increased by 10 per cent until October and those from the rural sector jumped 11.4 per cent during this time. Chinese wages have approximately doubled in the last five years and gross national savings are now near fifty per cent of GDP, this ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... there has been a 8.3 per cent increase in company gross operating profits over the last year and a 6.2 per cent increase in wages and salaries. Otherwise, on the same basis, inventories have fallen by 1.1 per cent and wholesale trade has risen by 1.8 ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
... 10.1 over the September quarter of this year. In another ABS release the national annual seasonally adjusted increase in wages for the Private Sector was 3.8 per cent and 4.2 per cent for the Public Sector. Overall across both sectors the increase came ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... feed into the production process the tight labour market there has resulted in a 0.9 per cent increase in September quarter wages and salaries at a time when the costs of health insurance, which is often borne by employers in the US, have risen by 1.1 ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... past 15 years have been the stand-out years of Australia's economic history," Keating said. "The only bright spot in the wages, wealth and economic equation& is the 9 per cent SG." Despite his passion for boosting savings, Keating poured cold water on ...

Daily Economic Round Up: All about Housing

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... that business confidence fell to a 12 month low as a result of concerns about cost pressures especially those do to with wages which have reached record levels in WA. Housing prices in the Perth region have increased 40 per cent a year with investor ...

Pentacle adds more experience to the team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... also held roles as industrial and superannuation officer with the ACTU, ministerial advisor with the Victorian Government, wages policy officer with the Victorian Government and with the Australian Railways Union as industrial and research officer. Pentacle ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... times the amount that has been created over this part of the year for the past 20 years. Recent data shows 4.1 per cent wages growth and that the biggest increases are for blue collar workers. NSW Small Business Minister David Campbell has foreshadowed ...