Fed: Housing slump adds to economic gloom

AAP General News (Australia);  December 8, 2000 ;     373 words ......Housing slump adds to economic gloom By Stephen Spencer, Economics...home lending added to the economic gloom. Lending to people wanting to build homes fell 3.7 per cent in October to the lowest...new home fell 18.5 per cent to a 10-year low. The total...new loans fell 3.9 per ...

Economic gloom - senior executives call for long-term focus.

M2 Presswire;  October 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......2008-Chartered Management Institute: Economic gloom - senior executives call for...the face of the continued economic gloom. Respondents to a survey...However, although half (54 per cent) admit that work has become...pressure. For example, 75 per cent view the downturn as ...

Fed: Poor job ads, housing finance data extend economic gloom

AAP General News (Australia);  April 9, 2001 ;     357 words ......housing finance data extend economic gloom By Jim Hanna, Economics Correspondent...jobs advertised fell 7.9 per cent in March to their lowest level...Coming after February's 10 per cent plunge, today's figures are...unemployment rate edging above 7.5 per cent during the September quarter...

Economic Gloom Spurs Several European States to Cut Rates.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 10, 1998 ;     171 words ......Tribune Business News Nov. 9--Economic gloom and the need for interest-rate...bring rates to around 3.3 per cent, the rate at which analysts believe...by 25 basis points to 3.5 per cent and 3.75 per cent respectively. This is the second...

Fed: Govt looks for retail trade bright spot in economic gloom

AAP General News (Australia);  May 30, 2001 ;     294 words ......retail trade bright spot in economic gloom CANBERRA, May 30 AAP - The...providing further evidence of economic gloom. Retail trade rose one per cent in March, the fourth month of strong growth, and was 9.2 per cent higher than it was a year...higher than expected 3.3 per cent ...

FED: Retail figures expected to add to economic gloom

AAP General News (Australia);  January 6, 1999 ;     298 words ......figures expected to add to economic gloom CANBERRA, Jan 6 AAP - More...profits to fall by 7.3 per cent in the March quarter. The survey...operating income to drop by 0.9 per cent and employment by 0.7 per cent during the first quarter of...

Fed: Jobs figures tipped to add to economic gloom

AAP General News (Australia);  March 13, 2003 ;     259 words ......Jobs figures tipped to add to economic gloom CANBERRA, March 13 AAP - The...along with a steady 6.1 per cent unemployment rate. The anticipated...consumer sentiment dipped 2.1 per cent in March to its lowest level...family finances were 6.9 per cent lower than the same time last...

Market Reports:Economic gloom a dampener on City

The Scotsman;  May 12, 2005 ;     455 words ......Lastminute.com. Shares in Lastminute leapt 45 per cent, or 47.75p to 153p as investors speculated...share index closed down 17 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 4,875.4, taking this week's fall almost to 1 per cent. The index climbed to 4,896 at mid-morning...

Wall St recovers after corporate data offsets economic gloom

The Scotsman;  October 2, 2002 ;     686 words ......Average rose 346.86 points, or 4.57 per cent, to 7,938.79. The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index shot up 14.70 points, or 3.54 per cent, at 1,213.76. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed 32.64 points, or 4 per cent, to 847.92. On Monday, the Dow and the...

Fed: Economic gloom may be overdone, surveys suggest

AAP General News (Australia);  December 13, 2001 ;     494 words ......News (Australia) 12-13-2001 Fed: Economic gloom may be overdone, surveys suggest...Sentiment lifted another 5.5 per cent in December, almost back to pre-Septemb...official interest rates to 1.75 per cent from 2.0 per cent, the 11th cut this year, in an...

More economic gloom as growth falters and high-street sales slump

Evening Standard - London;  May 23, 2008 ;     490 words ......The British economy grew by only 0.4 per cent in the first quarter of the year, according...currently project GDP growth at 1.4 per cent in 2009 but we may well revise this down...cost of fish and chips may go up by 50 per cent because of the soaring price of diesel...

Britain defies economic gloom House prices continue to surge as National...

The Independent - London;  January 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ......grow steadily in January, rising 1.7 per cent during the month, according to the Nationwide...in January was just behind the 1.8 per cent average increase recorded in the preceding...inflation continued to grow at 26.5 per cent - lower than the peaks seen last summer...

Air of economic gloom settling on region's consumers

Yorkshire Post;  August 11, 2005 ;     266 words ......months, a survey has revealed. Seventy per cent of people from the region expect to pay...last year. According to the survey 59 per cent of consumers felt prices had risen over the last 12 months, an increase from 47 per cent of those questioned in June. Confidence...

Economic gloom as high street sales falter

The Scotsman;  August 13, 2002 ;     540 words ......profit margins. The British Retail Consortium said high street sales grew 3.8 per cent last month, dipping from 4 per cent in June, and around half the pace of 7.5 per cent seen in March. The news came as the latest snapshot of the industrial sector...

Shopping: Elbows out, now is the time to buy The sales are on with a...

The Independent - London;  December 29, 1998 ;     636 words ......retailers offered reductions of up to 80 per cent. In recent years shops have had to cut...was the biggest since the war, at 6.6 per cent. The fall in the price of big-ticket household...such as fridges and furniture was 3.9 per cent, the biggest since records began in 1956...