Economy-wide spending continues to slow

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Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Index Economy-wide spending grew for the 43 consecutive month in February, but the pace of growth slowed to a crawl in the month. The Commonwealth Bank... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending March 20, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Indications from the US Federal Reserve that it is not in a hurry to raise interest rates dominated financial markets over... Read more continue reading

China – the usual worries, but no boom and no bust

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Key points Chinese economic data is off to a soft start this year. However, there are reasons for optimism that growth this year will still come in “around 7%”. Monetary... Read more continue reading

Reserve Bank battles fog; uncertain consumers

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Consumer confidence; Reserve Bank Board Minutes Consumer confidence: The weekly ANZ/Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating rose by 0.5 per cent in the week to March 15 to a reading of... Read more continue reading

Dividend bonanza provides boost to the economy

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Economic and Financial market perspectives Dividend bonanza: Over the next two months, conservatively around $25 billion will be paid out by companies in dividends to shareholders, representing 1.5 per cent... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 13 March, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week was messy and volatile in financial markets as Fed worries waxed and waned, the $US surged to its... Read more continue reading

From Australian to US to European shares – reasons to be optimistic on Eurozone equities

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Key points While Australian shares remain in a longer term period of underperformance relative to global shares and US shares are also relatively vulnerable in the short term to Fed... Read more continue reading

Melbourne leads for December Quarter house price growth.

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The latest edition of the Bendigo Bank/REIA Real Estate Market Facts Report identifies some interesting trends around the Australian residential property market that should prove useful for people seeking properties... Read more continue reading

Confidence slump; Benign Chinese inflation

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Consumer confidence; NAB Business Confidence; Chinese Inflation Business conditions and confidence: The NAB business conditions index held steady at +2.1 points in February. The business confidence index fell from +3.3... Read more continue reading

Petrol prices settle; Job market recovery

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Weekly petrol price; Chinese trade data; Job advertisements Petrol prices lift: Due to a holiday in Canberra, the weekly national average Australian price of petrol won’t be available until Tuesday.... Read more continue reading