Record house and renovation approvals; Construction activity hits 3½-year high

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Building approvals; Construction gauge; Services activity; Residential land Dwelling approvals: Council approvals to build new homes rose by 10.9 per cent in December to 33-month highs of 19,537 units (consensus:

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New car sales lift; Reserve Bank optimism

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Reserve Bank Governor speech; New vehicle sales; Living cost indexes Reserve Bank Governor speech: Philip Lowe delivered a speech entitled, “The Year Ahead”. New vehicle sales: New vehicle sales totalled

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Consumer confidence hits 15-month high, Payrolls lift; Stampede to Aussie regions, Insolvencies hit 9-month high

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Consumer confidence; CBA card spending; Payrolls; Internal migration; Insolvencies Consumer confidence: The weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating rose by 0.8 per cent to a 15-month high of 112.1 (long-run

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Consumer confidence hits 14-month high; Employment conditions highest in 27 months

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Consumer confidence; NAB Business survey; Economic forecasts Consumer confidence: The weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating rose by 2.3 per cent – the most in six weeks – to an

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CommSec State of the States – January 2021

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Overall Results How are Australia’s states and territories performing? Each quarter CommSec attempts to find out by analysing eight key indicators: economic growth; retail spending; equipment investment; unemployment; construction work

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Job market: Aussie hiring frenzy

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Labour Force Employment rose by 50,000 in December (consensus: +50,000) after increasing by 90,000 jobs in November. Full-time jobs rose by 35,700 and part-time jobs rose by 14,300. The unemployment

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Consumer views on future finances hit 15½-month high; Biggest lift in new home sales in 20 years; Payrolls drop

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Consumer confidence; New home sales; CBA card spending & spending intentions; Payrolls Consumer confidence: The weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating fell by just 0.2 per cent to 108.7 (long-run

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East Coast petrol prices spike; Used car prices lift; China’s ‘V’-shaped recovery; Aussies return home

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Petrol Prices; Used car prices; Tourism; Chinese economic data Fuel prices: The national average price of unleaded petrol fell by 0.2 cents to 119.6 cents a litre last week according

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Year in review. Year in preview

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The past pear: 2020 The Australian economy entered recession in the March quarter for the first time in 28 years – impacted by the COVID-19 coronavirus as well as drought,

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Bounce-back from COVID-19

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Business Indicators; China data Profits & sales: Company operating profits rose by 3.2 per cent in the September quarter (consensus: +4.0 per cent). Sales rose by 4.4 per cent in

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