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The slowdown in mining project work has resulted in a 26 per cent fall in the number of environmental professionals employed at the state's biggest consulting firms over the past year.

Perth dwelling prices fell 1.7 per cent in the three months to March, while the average dwelling price across Australia's capital cities also fell for the first time in over three years.

Power generator Pacific Energy has reported a 1 per cent fall in profit over the last financial year despite record earnings from its Kalgoorlie Power Systems and hydro - electric businesses.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per cent in September, however it disguised a fall in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.

Perth house prices have fallen 7.4 per cent over the past 18 months, making it the worst - performing housing market in the country.

Commercial rents in the Perth CBD have been tipped to fall by 9.4 per cent over the next 12 months, with the Western Australian capital one of only two major Australian cities to experience a contraction in office rental values.

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

Today's market calm follows harrowing levels of market volatility over the last two weeks when the TSX fell more than five per cent and Wall Street indexes entered «correction» territory.

Vancouver region prices have spiked to all - time record highs over $ 1.61 but will likely fall by four to six cents per litre over the next few weeks as two refineries in Washington state start up after maintenance shutdowns, said GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Dan McTeague.

One very concrete example of this can be seen in divergent movement in the price of health services — a non-tradable — which has increased by 6 per cent over the past year, and the price of clothing — a tradable — which has fallen by 3 per cent over the same period.

The critical issue here is that even though inflation rose and fell over the course of the cycle, price expectations did not move — even when inflation was running at 5 per cent, the community at large expected it would soon be back to its normal lower pace.

One of the many surprising aspects of financial market performance over the past year has been the weak performance of the US dollar, which has fallen by close to 10 per cent on a trade weighted basis and by more than 10 per cent against the euro.

Last fall, confronted with the prospect of global economic stagnation, the G20 recommended a major global infrastructure initiative to raise global output by 2 per cent over the next five years.

Over the six months from late January, the Australian dollar fell by 11 per cent against the US dollar and 8 per cent in trade - weighted terms.

Over the month of May, Sydney house prices fell 1.3 per cent and Melbourne's prices dropped 1.7 per cent, according to Corelogic's latest Hedonic Home Value Index.

Even though federal corporate tax rates have fallen by more than half over the past 30 years, corporate income tax revenues have continued to fluctuate around two per cent of GDP.

Markets for ether, the cryptocurrency linked to the ethereum distributed computing platform, were rocked yesterday by a huge flash crash that saw prices fall from over $ 365 down to as low as 10 cents on one exchange before bouncing back shortly afterwards — an event that is mildly worrying for anyone concerned about cryptocurrency volatility, but has had devastating consequences for some professional traders who have seen their holdings wiped out.

Passenger yields of the airline fell over 5 per cent.

It is possible that measured GDP growth is somewhat overstated due to difficulties in estimating the GDP deflator, which is falling considerably more quickly than other price measures; nominal GDP has grown by a much more modest 0.8 per cent over the year, although this is still an improvement on recent history.

Despite the falls in recent months, business credit is around 6 per cent higher over the year to March.

And despite falls in both the June and September quarters, services imports remained 7 per cent higher over the year to the September quarter, owing to a surge in international travel by Australians in late 2003.

Commodity prices have changed little on average over recent months and remain at high levels; the RBA Index of Commodity Prices fell by 0.8 per cent in SDR terms over the three months to January to be 10.2 per cent higher over the year.

Zinc prices rose by 13 per cent over the three months to January, as stronger - than - expected demand led to falls in stocks.

Exports to other east Asian countries have fallen by over 10 per cent over the past year, reflecting the economic difficulties in some of those countries in the early part of that period.

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Following declines over the past three quarters, driven by significant price falls, expenditure on imports of goods and services rose by 6 per cent in the September quarter, to be 3 1/2 per cent higher than a year ago.

The Nasdaq index fell by 25 per cent over this period.

Excluding fresh food, consumer prices fell by 0.2 per cent over 2004, with a boost from higher energy prices.

In particular, the Australian dollar fell to around US63 cents by late August as investors moved out of the currency into the rapidly appreciating yen; the bilateral rate against the yen fell from 82 to 70 yen over the same period.

In year - ended terms, inflation has fallen significantly from 2.4 per cent recorded in December and just over 3 per cent a year or so ago (Graph 69).

Domestic demand has been held back by weak consumption, which fell by 2.6 per cent over the year to the December quarter in response to restrictive measures introduced in 2002, aimed at slowing the previously very strong rates of growth in consumer credit.

Surveys and official data indicate flat or falling house prices across the UK; according to the Nationwide and Halifax surveys, house prices increased at an annualised rate of 1.8 per cent over the past three months, compared with annualised growth in excess of 20 per cent in the first half of 2004.

This was offset by falling import prices resulting from the appreciation of the New Zealand dollar, so total CPI inflation remained low at 1.5 per cent over this period.

The ratio of household sector interest payments to disposable income has fallen steadily over the past year and is now below 6 per cent.

Prices of other resources have risen by 22 per cent over the past year, but fell by 1.3 per cent over the three months to January.

Strong productivity growth, combined with moderating wage growth and ample spare capacity in the economy, led to unit labour costs falling by 1.7 per cent over the year to the December quarter.

The yen has been volatile over the past three months, in net terms falling by 3 per cent against the US dollar.

The price of gold fell by 2.4 per cent in SDR terms over the three months to January, with a sharp decline in January.

Net foreign debt liabilities fell by $ 6 billion in the June quarter — mainly a result of the appreciation of the exchange rate over the quarter — reducing the ratio of net foreign debt to GDP to 38.3 per cent.

Despite some monthly volatility, the unemployment rate remains on a downward trend and has fallen by 1/2 percentage point over the past year to reach 4.4 per cent in December.

The value of approvals for alterations and additions fell by 5 1/2 per cent over the same period.

The broad - based fall in the US dollar over the December quarter saw the Australian dollar reach US79.46 cents in late November, just below the recent cyclical high of US80.05 seen in February last year.

The average grade of the spodumene ore fed into Galaxy's processing plant fell from 1.27 per cent in the December quarter to 1.11 per cent over the past three months.

Following falls over the past two and a half years, business investment recorded an increase of 1.7 per cent in the June quarter (Graph 4).

The CPI fell by 0.4 per cent over the year to June, compared with falls of nearly 1 per cent in the past few years.

After reaching a new low of a little over 0.4 per cent in mid June, yields rose to an intraday high of 1.4 per cent very quickly, before falling back to around 0.9 per cent.

In contrast to consumer prices, the GDP deflator has fallen particularly sharply, to be 3 1/4 per cent lower over the year to March.

The fall in rural exports has been especially sharp, with the value of exports in the June quarter down by over 27 per cent on the level of a year ago, largely reflecting the effect of the drought.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

At the time of the previous Statement the Bank judged that underlying inflation was likely to fall slightly to around 2 1/2 per cent in the second half of 2003, and to remain around that rate over the following year.