Published on December 17, 2010 by Technology Slice
Property Prices to Increase in 2011 – While residential property prices remained relatively flat in the last quarter of 2010, a tight rental market and return to “normal” trends in first home ownership are likely to lead to firm growth late next year, they say. CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian said increasing rental demand and rising [...]
Tags: Asian Investors, Australian Dollar, Bank Of Australia, Caveat, Darwin, Economist, Economists, Home Ownership, House Price, house prices, Interest Rate Hikes, Interest Rate Rise, Last Quarter, Perth, Reserve Bank Of Australia, Residential Property, Sebastian, Sydney Markets, Tight Rental Market, Wages
Posted in Money
Published on August 4, 2010 by Technology Slice
Android Getting New Users – Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform continues to be the number mobile OS in the U.S., but a poll of BlackBerry users showed that about 42 percent of current owners are weighing a switch to iPhone or Android. Overall, RIM has 35 percent of the mobile OS market share in the [...]
Tags: apple, blackberry, Current, Feature Phones, iphone, Last Quarter, Leap, Loyalty, Market Share, Mobile Market, Mobile Os, Nielsen, Os Market, People, Poll, Research In Motion, Rim, S Market, Six Months, Subscribers
Posted in Mobile Phones
Published on July 28, 2010 by Technology Slice
First Home Owners Grant Doesn’t Help Affordability – The median price for residential property in Melbourne grew 20 per cent between 2008 and 2010, peaking at $480,000 in the last quarter of 2009. Commercial property values rose 7 per cent, industrial jumped 15 per cent and rural holdings went up 6 per cent, the figures [...]
Tags: affordability, Berwick, Commercial Property Values, Corridors, Dwellings, First Home Buyers, First Home Buyers Scheme, Home Buyers Market, Last Quarter, Local Councils, Market Boom, Median House Price, Median Price, Mornington Peninsula, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Mr Corrigan, Outskirts, Property Valuations, Revaluation, Valuer General
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Published on February 12, 2010 by Technology Slice
Fewer Americans than anticipated filed claims for unemployment insurance last week as an administrative backlog subsided and indicating companies are nearing the end of major staff cuts as the economy recovers. Initial jobless applications declined by 43,000 to 440,000 in the week ended Feb. 6, the lowest level in five weeks, from 483,000 the prior [...]
Tags: Backlog, Consumer Spending, Economist, economy, Increased Sales, Insurance, Jobless Claims, Labor Department, Last Quarter, Pace, S 500, Shelves, Six Years, Societe Generale, Staff Cuts, Stephen Gallagher, Stock Index Futures, Treasury Securities, Unemployment Insurance, unemployment rate
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Published on January 29, 2010 by Technology Slice
Officially the United Kingdom came out of recession in the last quarter of 2009 with the economy managing to post a positive growth figure for the first time in two years. However the 0.1% growth figure was substantially below the average estimate of 0.4% and even below the lowest individual estimate of 0.2% of specialist economists.
Tags: Economists, economy, Last Quarter, recession, United Kingdom
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