THE Australian share market has opened the week slightly firmer, supported by the energy and mining sectors as oil prices recovered and industrial metals strengthened
AUSTRALIAN retail trade at current prices fell 0.2 per cent in April to a seasonally adjusted $20.070 billion from a downwardly revised $20.103 billion in March, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show
COMPANY gross operating profits, in current prices, rose 2.2 per cent in the March quarter, seasonally adjusted, to be up 7.0 per cent over the year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. Economists were expecting gross operating profits to rise by 1.0 per cent in the quarter
INFLATION is rising at its swiftest pace on record, a private sector survey released on the eve of the Reserve Bank of Australia`s (RBA) next interest rate meeting shows
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