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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has again revised its estimates of the impact of the national drought which is now expected to impact about 60 per cent of the nation's arable land.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
While the Western Australian Government is expected to announce a revised estimate of the State budget above the $1.27 billion already forecast from the May budget, a survey by BankWest and the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry found that in all 16 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
There has been a slight lift in the seasonally adjusted number of total dwelling units commenced by 0.3 per cent over the period from June to September following the fall of 3 per cent during the previous quarter.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment rose by 11.8 per cent over the month to December having fallen 9.7 per cent in November.

Employment mobility figures revised

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revised its estimates about the mobility of the Australian labour force noting that of 9.921 million people aged 15 years and over who were working in February 2006 for employers other than themselves, 11.6 per ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
The National Australia Bank's Monthly Business Survey has reported that business conditions fell by 4 points to a score of +14 during November to effectively reverse the rise of last month but still keep the index at strong levels.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
The latest Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey reveals a continuing level of pessimism among business executives with more than a third anticipating a fall in profits for the coming March quarter compared to that of a year earlier.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
The strength in the pipeline of the economy and the growing lack of skills required by employers is seen in the starting salaries for new graduates which are now said to be their best since the tech-boom period that ended in about 2000.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The momentum in the economy continues to supply jobs with an extra 36,200 being added to the national total of employed persons which is now 10,288,700. Importantly, 57,400 full-time jobs were added continuing the trend of the last year though the number ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The release of the latest national accounts data shows that the seasonally adjusted final consumption expenditure measure of GDP grew by only 0.3 per cent over the last quarter to take the annual tally to 2.2 per cent.