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Rates Deterring Demand For Home Loans: The nation's appetite for property is waning as back-to-back interest rate rises by the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA in February and March to near 12-year highs have dented mortgage approvals, economists say.National housing finance commitments for owner-occupiers fell by 6.1 per cent in March, the Australian Bureau of...; Tags: Interest Rate, Economist, March, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-05-12
Aussie Trade Deficit at $2.736b in March: Better weather in Australia's resources rich states helped exports spring back to life in March, resulting in an improved trade deficit, economists say.The Australian balance of goods and services was a deficit of $2.736 billion, seasonally adjusted, in March, from a downwardly revised $3.261 billion in February, figures from...; Tags: Coal, Australia, Interest Rate, Economist, March, February, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-05-06
Trade Deficit Down as Coal Exports Surge: Australia has rebounded from its worst ever trade deficit as resource exports recover from the devastation of the Queensland floods.The nation's export performance is set to sizzle in coming months - with economists even predicting an eventual trade surplus - as Asian nations pay more for key commodities.The trade...; Tags: Coal, Australia, Economist, Surplus, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, AAP; News items 2008-05-06
Economy to Slow This Year Despite Rate Cuts: By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters UK) - Economic growth is expected to slow even more this year, despite further Bank of England rate cuts, but the chances of a recession remain relatively low, a Reuters poll showed. The quarterly poll of 60 economists, taken April 15-23,...; Tags: Economist, Inflation, March, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Oukbs; News items 2008-04-23
Housing Downturn Gathers Pace: By Matt Falloon LONDON (Reuters UK) - House prices suffered their most widespread decline across Britain for 30 years and retail sales fell for a second consecutive month in April, surveys showed on Tuesday, in a sign the economic slowdown is worsening. The weak figures are...; Tags: Bank, Economist, Bank Of England, Figure, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Sales Strategy, Sales; News items 2008-05-13

Growth Seen Slowing in First Quarter: By Raissa Kasolowsky LONDON (Reuters UK) - Analysts expect economic growth slowed in the first three months of 2008 as the credit crunch took its toll. Analysts polled by Reuters expect economic growth during the first quarter to have fallen to 0.4 percent from 0.6 ...; Tags: Growth, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Manufacturing, Sales, Economist, Oukbs, Service Sector Growth; News items 2008-04-24
2008 Growth Outlook Deteriorated: Blue Chip: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even with some signs of improvement in the U.S. financial markets and a temporary boost from the economic stimulus package, the growth outlook for the second half of this year has deteriorated, according to a panel of economic...; Tags: Corporate communications, stimulus, economist, interest rate, business investment, newsletter, Washington, Thomson Reuters Corp., survey, performance; News items 2008-05-09
Lower Wages Growth May Keep Rates Steady: Slower wages growth has reduced the risk of an interest rate rise, but economists warn Wednesday's data may not paint the full picture of the labour market.The wage price index grew by 0.9 per cent in the three months to March, seasonally adjusted, the first result below one per...; Tags: Economist, Salary, Wages Growth, RBA, Benefits, Human Resources, AAP; News items 2008-05-14
Bank of England Set to Hold Rates: By Christina Fincher LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England looks more likely to leave interest rates on hold rather than cut them later on Thursday, but a stream of dismal data over recent days has made the decision a close call. Only five of...; Tags: Interest Rate, Economist, Bank Of England, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance; News items 2008-05-07
economists Salute Swan's Budget: The federal government has delivered a record surplus for 2008/09 but its growth outlook may be too low because spending cuts are unlikely to take much heat out of the economy, economists said.The government is forecasting a larger than expected $21.7 billion underlying cash surplus for 2008/09, after it...; Tags: Interest Rate, Economist, Surplus, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-05-13
Jobless Claims, Retail Sales Show Resilience: By Nancy Waitz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing claims for initial jobless benefits fell last week and retail sales rebounded last month from a dismal March, suggesting the economy, while soft, was not crumbling rapidly. Many economists have concluded...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Investment, economist, sales, Washington, benefit, food, volatility, stock, Thomson Reuters Corp., U.S., performance, job; News items 2008-05-08
U.S. Growth Surprises But Consumers Stressed: By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - A buildup in inventories kept the U.S. economy afloat in the first quarter despite the weakest consumer spending since 2001 and reduced business investment, a government report on Wednesday showed. Gross domestic product grew at a 0.6 percent annual...; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Economist, Rate, GDP, GDP Figure, Government, Recruitment & Selection, US; News items 2008-04-30
Rates to Hold Despite High Inflation: Mortgage borrowers are widely tipped to escape another interest rate rise this month as slower consumer spending takes the pressure off the highest core inflation rate in more than 16 years.Only one of the 19 economists surveyed by AAP has forecast an interest rate rise at the Reserve Bank...; Tags: Economist, Inflation, Mortgage Borrower, RBA, March, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-05-02
China Economy Slows a Touch: By Eadie Chen and Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING (Reuters) - China shrugged off atrocious winter weather and a global credit crunch to post surprisingly strong economic growth of 10.6 percent for the first quarter. The outcome will be welcome to global policy makers, who ...; Tags: Financial services, surplus, China, bank, Beijing, interest rate, foreign-exchange, income tax, bond, Thomson Reuters Corp., income, financial, adjustment, banking, finance, payment; News items 2008-04-16
China's Inflation Still High: China shrugged off atrocious winter weather and a global credit crunch to post surprisingly strong economic growth of 10.6 per cent for the first quarter.The outcome will be welcome to global policy makers, who are looking to big emerging markets such as China to take up some of the...; Tags: China, Economist, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance; News items 2008-04-17
Inflation Tipped to Hit 17-year High: Inflation is expected to have continued to have grown in the first quarter of 2008, as food, petrol and commodity prices soar.Rising inflationary pressures could pave the way for a further rate hike in May, although most economists expect rates to be on hold for the rest of this...; Tags: Economist, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-04-18
April Home Builder Index Lingers Near Low: NAHB: By Lynn Adler NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home builder sentiment hovered near all-time lows in April, with early spring shopping not yet boosting sales of new homes, the National Association of Home Builders said on Tuesday. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market index...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, National Association of Home Builders, housing market, economist, U.S. Senate, tax, sales, consumer confidence, financial market, Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, survey, benefit, financial; News items 2008-04-15
Irrational Economics: Economists aren't rational, because they assume people are. It's a flaw that's become obvious in economics, and opened the door to a more reasoned approach, based on experiments, not theories that try to match data. One of the economists leading this wave is Dan Ariely, a...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Dan Ariely; Blog posts 2008-03-20
Learn how collaboration will fuel success with this FREE economist report: The future belongs to those who collaborate effectively, according to "Collaboration: Transforming the Way Business Works," a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit, available here courtesy of Cisco. This in-depth report, based on extensive surveys and interviews with business leaders, shows that collaboration across departments and among satellite offices,...; Tags: Groupware, Cisco Systems Inc., collaboration, satellite, survey, knowledge, industry; White papers 2008-01-01
How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business: Grameen Bank is an improbable business worth study. In the second section of Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus details the ongoing evolution of what he calls "The Grameen Experiment." Yunus was an economist, not a banker, and he needed to invent his bank for the poor, ignoring naysayers...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank; Blog posts 2008-01-12