Healthy home prices; Margin expansion

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Home Value Index; Producer Prices; Performance of Manufacturing Home prices lift: The CoreLogic RP Data Home Value Index of capital city home prices rose by 0.8 per cent in April

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Bracket creep: The gift that keeps giving

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Taxation Statistics 2012/13 Fewer taxpayers: According to data from the Australian Tax Office, the number of individual taxpayers fell by 3.3 per cent in 2012/13 while non-taxable individuals rose by

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Tame inflation! Rate cut on the cards

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Consumer price index Tame inflation: The Consumer Price Index – the main measure of inflation in Australia – rose by 0.2 per cent in the March quarter, in line with

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Consumer confidence at 8-month lows; Reserve Bank awaits inflation data

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Consumer confidence; Reserve Bank Board Minutes; RBA Governor Speech Consumer confidence: The weekly ANZ/Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating fell by 0.9 per cent in the week to April 19 to

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Motorists set to confront higher petrol prices

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Weekly petrol price Petrol prices: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of petrol fell by 0.2 cents per litre last week to 130.1 cents

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CommSec State of the States

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April 2015 – 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;

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Largest job gains in four years

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Labour force; New motor vehicle sales Jobs rise: Employment rose by 37,700 in March after rising by a revised 41,900 in February (previously estimated at a 15,600 gain in jobs).

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China: Growth at 6yr low; Younger Aussies more upbeat

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Chinese economic data; Consumer confidence Chinese economic data: The Chinese economy grew at a 7.0 per cent annual pace in the March quarter – the slowest growth rate in six

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Consumer confidence at 8-month lows

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Consumer confidence Consumer confidence: The weekly ANZ/Roy Morgan consumer confidence rating fell by 2.3 per cent in the week to April 5 to a reading of 109.7 – an 8-month

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Reserve Bank keeps powder dry

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Reserve Bank Board meeting The cash rate has left at a record low of 2.25 per cent. The door has been left open to another rate cut. What does it

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