Business News
Pump price pain - 18 June 2013
Petrol prices: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol rose by 1.5 cents... read more >
Job market defies the doomsayers - 14 June 2013
Labour Force Jobs & jobless rate: Employment rose by 1,100 in May after rising by a revised 45,000 jobs in April (previously reported... read more >
Weaker Aussie dollar adds to motorist pain - 14 June 2013
Weekly petrol price Petrol prices: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded... read more >
Youth unemployment falls to a 4½-year low - 13 June 2013
Labour force Jobs & jobless rate: Employment rose by 1,100 in May after rising by a revised 45,000 jobs in April (previously reported as a... read more >
Stable rates boost confidence; Lending higher - 12 June 2013
Consumer sentiment: The Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence rose by 4.7 per cent in June. All five components of the... read more >
Health spending soars. But less beer and wine. - 06 June 2013
Detailed consumer spending data Over the year to March, real consumer spending rose by 2.9 per cent (decade average 3.4 per cent) while... read more >
Currency drives sharemarket volatility - 06 June 2013
Sharemarket perspectives Healthy start to 2013 but Aussie market underperforms overseas counterparts. The S&P/ASX 200 has lifted by 6.0... read more >
RBA cash rate on hold at 2.75% - 04 June 2013
At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.75 per cent. Information becoming available since the previous... read more >
US stocks rebound on open - 04 June 2013
US stocks are up in opening trade, rebounding from steep losses on Friday as markets awaited key PMI manufacturing data for May. Five minutes... read more >
Low rates but Aussies say no to debt - 31 May 2013
Private sector credit (loans outstanding) rose by 0.3 per cent in April. Credit stands 3.1 per cent higher than a year ago but has grown at a... read more >
Investment records biggest fall in 3½-years - 31 May 2013
Business investment; Building Approvals Weaker investment in the March quarter: New business investment in buildings or equipment fell by... read more >
Petrol prices up, more rises ahead - 29 May 2013
The national average Australian price of unleaded petrol rose by 5.4 cents a litre in the week to May 26 – the second largest weekly... read more >
One more cut - 22 May 2013
You could have been excused for thinking that there was unlikely to be anything significantly new in the minutes of the last Reserve Bank... read more >
Petrol price set to spike - 20 May 2013
Weekly petrol price: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol fell by 1.5... read more >
2013-14 Federal Budget Tax changes - 17 May 2013
This article contains a summary of the key domestic and international tax changes announced in the 2013-14 Budget that impact on businesses,... read more >
Ghost town: what’s happened to Oxford Street Sydney? - 17 May 2013
One of Sydney’s best-known retail strips has seen its rents brutally chopped in half in just a few years. Almost no one is admitting... read more >
Record car sales; Wage growth near 3-year low - 16 May 2013
Wages rose by 0.7 per cent in the March quarter, in line with expectations. Annual growth of wages eased from 3.4 per cent to 3.2 per cent... read more >
How will the Budget affect mining? - 16 May 2013
The excuse of Treasurer Swan of a once in 50 years event on his estimates, upon which he built his spending programs, does not hold water when... read more >
Double whammy to hit motorists - 13 May 2013
Weekly petrol price Weekly petrol price: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded... read more >
How will the Federal Budget impact the mining industry? - 13 May 2013
Presentations and private conversations with some of the heavy hitter economists at the recent Minerals Council Tax Conference in Brisbane... read more >
