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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
At the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries, Argentina and Brazil have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
Following on from his comments that the Australian Government would look towards backing local candidates ahead of importing skills, Prime Minister John Howard said the skills shortage had arisen as a result of good management by the government, while ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
The headline news over the weekend was the G7 meeting in Singapore where the world's seven richest nations met to discuss current and future economic hurdles. The group sees its member countries continuing to steam ahead in the high energy prices environment ...

Daily Economic Round Up: All about Housing

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics data just released showed that housing starts were down 2.3 per cent over the last quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis and this represented a 5.5 per cent fall over the last year.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index rose 12.5 per cent to a score of 101.2 following a 16.2 per cent fall after the last interest rate rise. The improvement in the index is being seen a s a consequence of the improvement in petrol ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
The monthly survey of business confidence by NAB fell four points in August to a score of six having apparently peaked in March of this year at 14. The three components of the index were down with the sales index falling one point, the profitability ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Data released yesterday on lending finance up until July showed that housing finance increased 1.3 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms from the level in June.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
Further analysis of the national accounts data released late last week shows that the textile, clothing and footwear industry expanded by 10 per cent year on year, growing 9.2 per cent during the June quarter compared to an overall seasonally adjusted ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
The number of jobs created last month rose by 23,400 in seasonally adjusted terms to take the national number of people employed to 10.2655 million. Better news was that most of the employment gain was in full-time jobs which increased by 22,600 to now ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
The national accounts released yesterday show that Australia's GDP grew at only 0.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The increase in GDP was a consequence of an increase of 0.5 per cent in final consumption expenditure, 0.3 per cent in private ...