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Retail Trade Lifts 0.7% in May: Consumers spent $20.2 billion on shopping May, resulting in a sharp bounce after four months of slim retail activity.The Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said retail trade grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.7 per cent in May.Economists had forecast a 0.2 per cent increase.The strong outcome is at odds...; Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Interest Rate, Consumer Price Index, Asset Based Security, Financial Planning, Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Sales, AAP; News items 2008-07-02
Higher Retail Sales Could Mean More Pain: Australian consumers defied rising fuel prices and high interest rates to increase their retail spending in May and raise the chance of further interest rate pain, economists say.Retail sales rebounded in May, rising 0.7 per cent, seasonally adjusted, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said.The bounce in retail trade...; Tags: Interest Rate, Inflation, RBA, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Sales Force Management, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-07-02
Building Approvals Fall, Return to Trend: Fewer building approvals due to high interest rates is bad news for those looking to buy or rent a home, economists say.The number of new building development approvals fell a seasonally adjusted 6.5 per cent in May, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said.Although they were expected to be...; Tags: Interest Rate, Economist, Mr., Approval, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-07-02
Spain Hits at ECB's Trichet Over Rates Comments: By Jason Webb MADRID (Reuters UK) - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Saturday blamed the European Central Bank for Friday's jump in the oil price and some market interest rates and said ECB president Jean Claude Trichet should be "more prudent" in...; Tags: Spain, Interest Rate, Inflation, ECB, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance; News items 2008-06-07
Services Sector Sinks to Record Low: Australia's services sector performance has fallen to a record low and contracted for the third successive month as high petrol prices and interest rates stifle consumer and business spending, a report shows.The Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank performance of services index fell 4.3 index points in June to 45.4 points.It...; Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Interest Rate, Contraction, Services Sector, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-07-03

Consumers 'not as Bad Off' With Tax Cuts: Australian consumers may not be doing it as tough as many believe.With another round of tax cuts due next week, and taking inflation into account, the average person is more than $425 per month better off than six years ago, an analysis by Commonwealth Securities shows.This is despite 12-year...; Tags: AAP, Interest Rate, Salary, Taxes, Free Trade, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources; News items 2008-06-24
Card Spending Slowed in April: RBA: Credit card spending grew at its slowest pace in more than a decade in April, latest statistics show, as consumers grappled with high interest rates and the soaring cost of fuel and food.Australians spent $17.66 billion on their credit and charge cards in April, up three per cent from...; Tags: Card, Credit Card, Interest Rate, Mr., Charge Card, April, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-06-19
Shares Stay Soft as ECB Raises Rates: By Natsuko Waki LONDON (Reuters UK) - A global sell-off knocked world shares to a five-month low on Thursday as surging oil fanned concerns about inflation and slowing growth with investors looking ahead to a key U.S. jobs report. The European Central Bank became the first...; Tags: Stock, Interest Rate, Investor, MSCI, Financial Planning, Investment, Currency & Foreign Exchange, US; News items 2008-07-03
Inflation a Threat, But Growth Critical: By Steven C. Johnson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Now that everyone agrees that it's inflation, not a lingering credit crisis, that poses the gravest risk to the world economy, it's time to think again about central bankers' focus. While policy-makers have grown increasingly...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, inflation, Federal Reserve Board, consumer price index, economist, financial market, food, salary, food price, Washington, fixed income, chairman, bank, China, financial, Thomson Reuters Corp., interest rate, U.S., health care; News items 2008-06-23
May Mortgage Approvals Plummet: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Approvals for new home loans plummeted in May to a record low, official data showed on Monday, in a sign that house prices will fall sharply in the coming months. The Bank of England said mortgage approvals fell 28 percent on the...; Tags: Housing Market, Interest Rate, Mortgages, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures; News items 2008-06-30
RBA at End of Rate Hikes: Economists: Interest rates might be at the peak of the cycle after the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA talked up the prospects of a slowing economy, while leaving rates on hold.The RBA on Tuesday kept interest rates unchanged for the fourth consecutive month, leaving the official cash rate at a...; Tags: Board, Interest Rate, Economist, Mr., Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Corporate Governance, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, AAP; News items 2008-07-01
New Home Sales Weaken in May: The impact of high interest rates and growing cost of living pressures continue to be felt in the housing sector, with new home sales falling in May.The Housing Industry Association's HIA new home sales report found sales of houses and units fell five per cent in May.Detached house sales...; Tags: Australia, Interest Rate, Home Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AAP; News items 2008-07-01
BlackRock's Doll Says Fed on Hold For Now: HONG KONG (Reuters) - One of the biggest U.S. money managers said on Tuesday the Federal Reserve was unlikely to raise interest rates despite surging oil prices until the U.S. economy shows more signs of stabilization. "We don't think the Fed will be...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Federal Reserve Board, interest rate, Ben Bernanke, Hong Kong, stabilization, equity, financial market, quarterly profit, Thomson Reuters Corp., financial, inflation, asset; News items 2008-06-10
Big Three Central Banks Tone Down Rate Hike Threats: By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England on Tuesday all dampened expectations for aggressive interest rate rises to counter rising inflation, sending global stocks and bonds surging in relief. The initial...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial Planning, Financial services, Financial accounting, inflation, interest rate, Bank of England, Federal Reserve Board, financial market, bond, bank, London, economist, financial, stock, Thomson Reuters Corp., pricing strategy; News items 2008-06-17
Home Sales Slide as Gloom Deepens: LONDON (Reuters UK) - The number of homes changing hands fell nearly 40 percent on the year in May, spelling more gloom for the country's estate agents and furniture retailers as a housing downturn intensifies. Revenue and Customs said on Monday property transactions numbered 100,000...; Tags: Housing Market, Interest Rate, Retail Company, Economist, Sales Strategy, Retail, Mortgages, Sales; News items 2008-06-23
Job Vacancies Rise, Labour Market Tight: Job vacancies rose in the three months to May, showing the labour market remains as tight as a drum and exhibits no sign of a downturn, the latest official employment figures show.And employers still need to offer incentives to retain and hire staff, prompting the spectre of an inflationary...; Tags: Job, Interest Rate, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, AAP; News items 2008-06-26
Economy on Brink of Recession, Greenspan Says: JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Tuesday the U.S. economy was on the brink of a recession, with the chances of that happening at more than 50 percent. The U.S. economy has been hit by a credit crisis...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial Planning, Financial services, brink, Alan Greenspan, inflation, interest rate, South Africa, financial system, chairman, bank, Thomson Reuters Corp., food, video, financial; News items 2008-06-24
Home Slump Harder to Reverse Than Usual: Harvard: By Lynn Adler NEW YORK (Reuters) - Record foreclosures and limited access to credit will make it harder than usual for the U.S. housing market to rebound from this slump, the worst at least since World War Two, according to a Harvard University...; Tags: Mortgages, Operational accounting, Harvard University, borrower, slump, job loss, housing market, mortgage, deflation, income, New York, interest rate, Thomson Reuters Corp., sales, payment, job; News items 2008-06-23
Economic Outlook "subprime," No Recession: Report: By Jim Christie SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The economy will likely avoid a formal recession, but its outlook through the end of next year is decidedly "subprime" with the deep housing downturn restraining growth to just above 1 percent, a UCLA Anderson ...; Tags: Marketing research, survey, hiring, Washington, gross domestic product, inflation, Thomson Reuters Corp., worker, industry, computer; News items 2008-06-18
Bernanke: Entitlement Spending May Hit Rates, Growth: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising spending on U.S. Social Security and Medicare programs, if unchecked, will inflate national debt and the budget defect, ultimately affecting interest rates and economic growth, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday. "There are limits to...; Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, Ben Bernanke, interest rate, defect, Medicare, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, chairman, health care, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-06-16