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Economics

Daily economic update

Australian manufacturing production is up in the March quarter, while new motor vehicles sales were down.

Daily economic update

Financial markets will be hoping to get more clues on the outlook for US monetary policy from speeches by Federal Reserve officials later today.

Weekly economic round-up

There was light news in terms of domestic economic data last week but the few pieces that were released painted a more positive tone for the Australian economy.

Daily economic update

The US Federal Reserve will view last night's inflation report favourably. US headline CPI rose by 0.1 per cent in February and the core inflation measure also increased by a mild 0.1 per cent.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open firmer and could break above the coveted 5000 mark as a solid lead from the US and improved commodity prices again set the tone for the domestic bourse.

Daily Economic Update

The Empire State manufacturing index rose to 31.16 in March from 21.02 the previous month. This is much higher than market expectations for a decline to 18.9, but note that this is a volatile series.

Daily economic update

US retail sales dropped by 1.3 per cent in February with ex autos falling by 0.4 per cent. Expectations were for a decline of 0.8 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively.

Daily economic update

The National Australia Bank's (NAB) latest monthly business survey shows improvement in domestic business conditions and confidence.

Daily economic update

A stronger than expected increase in employment provided some good news to the Australian economy which had been fluxed with disappointing activity data over the past few weeks.

Daily economic update

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the official cash rate untouched at 5.5 per cent following yesterday's Board meeting. Bank of Canada lifts interest rates to 3.75 per cent.