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State of the States

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

State & territory economic performance report 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 done; population growth; housing finance and dwelling commencements. Just as the Reserve Bank uses decade averages to determine the level of “normal”

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21 Oct 2013

State of the States – July 2013

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

State & territory economic performance report 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 done; population growth; housing finance and dwelling commencements. Just as the Reserve Bank uses decade averages to determine the level of

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22 Jul 2013

Onward & upward Australia

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

The record-breaking economic expansion has notched up another quarter of growth. The Australian economy grew by 0.5 per cent in the September quarter to stand 3.1 per cent higher than a year ago. The biggest contributions to growth came from business equipment spending (+0.4 percentage points), followed by inventories (+0.3pp), household consumption (+0.2pp), and net

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07 Dec 2012

Happy 21st Birthday Australia!

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

The Australian economy has just completed its 21st year of growth; the last recession ended in the June quarter of 1991. It is the longest expansion in Australia’s history. In 2011/12, the economy grew by 3.4 per cent, slightly above the long-term average of 3.25 per cent. The economy grew by 0.6 per cent in

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06 Sep 2012

CommSec: State & territory performance report

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

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 done; population growth; housing finance and dwelling commencements. Just as the Reserve Bank uses decade averages to determine the level of “normal” interest rates; we have done

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24 Oct 2011

Weekly economic and market report

Weekly economic and market report for week commencing 17 July 2011 Headline developments of the past week European debt problems took centre stage yet again over the last week. Until recently it appeared that the European Union had put a firewall around Greece, Ireland and Portugal in order to protect Spain and Italy and as

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18 Jul 2011

State of the states – state & territory performance report

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

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 done; population growth; housing finance and dwelling commencements. Just as the Reserve Bank uses decade averages to determine the level of “normal” interest rates; we have done

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18 Jul 2011

New Carbon Tax: More or less certainty?

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

Details on proposed Carbon Tax The Federal Government has proposed a new tax on carbon emissions of $23 a tonne to apply to 500 of the biggest corporate emitters from July 2012. The aim of the tax is to increase the price of goods produced by carbon-intensive industries and thus change behaviour of consumers and

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11 Jul 2011

Investor Signposts: Week Beginning July 10 2011

From Craig James - Chief Economist - CommSec

The big picture Confused about where the economy is heading? You’re in good company, with the boffins from the Reserve Bank also seemingly scratching their collective heads about where things are going. Earlier in the year the policymakers appeared confident that the economy would rebound strongly after the floods and cyclones and flagged the risk

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07 Jul 2011

CommSec: Unemployment rate is a good indicator of job market health

From Savanth Sebastian - Economist - CommSec

Labour force The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 per cent in June. The participation rate edged up from 65.5 per cent to 65.6 per cent. The working age population rose by 19,600. Employment rose by 23,400 people in June. Economists had tipped job gains of around 15,000. But the May result was sharply revised

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07 Jul 2011

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