Inflation dragon in chains

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The Consumer Price Index – the main measure of inflation in Australia – rose by 0.4 per cent in the March quarter, below expectations for a lift of around 0.7

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Weekly economic and market update

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Share markets rebounded over the past week continuing the volatile trading seen through much of April. While some economic indicators disappointed, earnings results were generally positive in the US and

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State & territory economic performance report

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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

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Weekly economic and market update

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China got the past week off to a bad start with growth coming in at 7.7% in the March quarter against expectations for 8% growth and industrial production and fixed

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Weekly economic and market update

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It was back to “risk on” over most of the past week as the positive impetus provided by Japan’s monetary reflation, good Chinese economic data and a reasonable start to

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Weekly economic and market update

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The big development of the past week has been Japan taking another huge step down the path of reflation with the Bank of Japan under the new dovish leadership of

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One minute update:Population lifts, inflation & borrowing subdued

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A raft of new economic data was released just before Easter. What do the figures show? The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge rose by 0.2 per cent in March to

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Weekly economic & market update

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Europe continued to cause concerns for investors over the past week with Cyprus getting a new bailout deal but fears that it still sets precedents for future bank bailouts and

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Weekly economic and market update

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The past week was somewhat confusing in financial markets. US economic data remained surprisingly solid helping to push US shares higher, Japanese shares continued to surge helped by the confirmation

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Weekly economic & market update

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While the past week started on a rough note with stepped up property tightening measures in China, it turned around pretty quick with the US Dow Jones index making it

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