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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to increase interest the cash rate by 0.25 basis points to 6.25 per cent saying that it took note of the likely economic effects of the drought on farm and national income. The RBA said that domestic demand ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The ANZ job series released yesterday showed the number of major newspaper and internet job ads rose by 5.8 per cent in October to an average of more than 195,000 per week, 25.3 per cent higher a year ago. The earlier September increase of 0.3 per cent ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Pressure will be on the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates tomorrow when it meets. Last weeks announcement that building approvals by municipal councils rose by 6.1 per cent in September to produce a year on year growth in total dwellings ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The recent uplift in consumer sentiment as measured by the Westpac survey has not been transferred into much buoyancy in retail sales, as indicated by the ABS monthly release of the data yesterday. Retail sales grew by just 0.1 per cent in seasonally ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Notes on the Australian System of National Accounts released yesterday showed that while GDP increased by 2.8 per cent in 2005-06, GDP per capita increased by 1.5 per cent. The household savings ratio, which has been on a downward spiral for three decades ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
The release of the financial aggregates data for September by the RBA yesterday showed that borrowing by businesses and households has slowed in line with expectations as the cost of capital has moved up a couple of times during the last year and is ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
The first nationwide natural resource management survey by the ABS has revealed the economic cost of ensuring the upkeep of the nation's natural resources that are used for agriculture. During the period 2004-05 farmers spent about $3.3 billion on natural ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
Overnight news from the US revealed that the US economy grew by only 1.6 per cent in the September quarter which was down on the June figure of 2.6 per cent and the 5.6 per cent from the March quarter. Residential construction has fallen more than 17 ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
... employees which is a higher proportion that in any countries. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Peter Hendy said that the wage increase would cost employers up to about $2 billion a year, indeed the government's own modelling ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The release by the ABS of national CPI data has shown that overall there was a 0.9 per cent increase during the third quarter, tallying to a 3.9 per cent annual rate. This suggests that the coming RBA meeting on 7 November will see the board under pressure ...

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Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has pledged US$5 billion to NASDAQ-listed Applied Digital Corporation, which provides high-performance computing (HPC) data-centre solutions.

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Economist's wishlist: Lower tariffs, bond yields settling

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AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina has listed her top five wishlist items for 2025, with hopes for lower inflation and avoiding a trade war.

MUFG Pension & Market Services awards tech mandate

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MUFG Pension & Market Services (MPMS) has awarded Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) a mandate to help transform its retirement solutions business.

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