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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... the latest OECD forecasts that the boom has added about 1.75 per cent to GDP. Recent ABS data shows that WA's unemployment rate fell from 7.4 per cent to 4.7 per cent during the period from 1995 to 2005 during which time disposable income rose by 4 per ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
... year has seen a 2.7 per cent increase in employed persons and a 4.9 per cent drop in the number unemployed. The unemployment rate has decreased by 0.4 per cent to 4.8 per cent and the participation rate has risen by 0.6 points to 65.1 per cent which ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... economy can be felt in Europe where the statistics office of the European Union has just announced that the unemployment rate rose by 0.1 per cent to 7.9 per cent in August. The EU is the market for about 20 per cent of US goods. In France Peugeot has ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
... work. As a result the participation rate increased to by 0.1 per cent to 65 per cent and the overall national unemployment rate remained steady at 4.8 per cent. Unemployment is highest in Tasmania at 6.2 per cent, in the band 4.5 to 4.8 per cent for ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... to August although this is significantly behind the monthly figure of last year of 170,000. As a result the unemployment rate fell from 4.8 per cent to 4.7 per cent at a time when second quarter GDP was revised up from 2.5 per cent to 2.9 per cent, still ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... quarter in a row by the Sensis small business confidence survey. ABS data showed that NSW had the second highest unemployment rate of the Australian States at 5.1 per cent and had no growth in the March quarter.

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2006
... rose by 55,800 to 7.3 million and part-time employment increased marginally to 2.9 million. This pulled the unemployment rate down to 4.9 per cent - a 30-year low -- down 0.2 percentage points from 5.1 per cent in April notwithstanding the increase in ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... statistics. For instance, retail sales rose by 1.4 percent in April -- the fastest pace in almost a year; the unemployment rate reached a 29-year-low of 5 per cent in March, and was 5.1 percent in April; exports rose 5 per cent to the second-highest ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2006
... rose by 22,700 last month but this was more than offset by the lost of 25,900 part-time jobs. As a result, the unemployment rate inched up by 0.1 percentage point to 5.1 per cent in April. The male unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 per cent to 4.9 per ...

Daily Economic Update

... that the number of employed persons is gradually picking up from the flat trend of the past few months. The unemployment rate dropped to 5 per cent in March from 5.2 per cent in the previous month. Expectations were for the jobless rate to remain unchanged ...

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Blackwattle takes over Quest Asset Partners

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Funds SA poaches Vision Super risk specialist

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Regal flags muted second-half performance fees

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Insignia chief draws 'hard line' on NCAs giving retirement advice

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