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C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... Where C stands for household consumption; I for business investment; G for government spending ; X for exports; and, M for imports. Household consumption contributed more than half (1.62 percentage points) to the economy's 3.0% annualised growth rate ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... contribution. Even more so because the positive contribution from net exports was attained through a 1.6% reduction in imports (exports up 1.5% on the quarter) which only underscores the weakness in domestic demand. It could just be one swallow that ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... paper on UK-EU trade (published on 7 November) shows that, the UK buys more from the EU -- £312 billion or 53.9% of total imports of goods and services - than it sells -- £236 billion or 43.1% of total exports. Still, the UK cannot just thumb its nose ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... billion in the same month last year. This is less than market expectations for a US$39.5 billion outcome as growth in imports (up 17.2% in the year to October) outpaced the 6.9% increase in exports. More important for Sino-US bilateral trade relations ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... private consumption growth moderates, and the boost from 2020 Olympics-related private investment is offset by higher imports and slower projected growth in foreign demand." If so, it would turn out as it did on several occasions since the early 1990s ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... spending is further highlighted by the ABS' report on international trade and services for August that showed no growth in imports of goods and services for the month - more precisely, imports of consumption goods dropped the most, down 4% in August ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... - more expensive in the international market - and import prices - cheaper for Australians. Net exports (exports minus imports) contributed 0.4 percentage points to Australia's second quarter growth of 0.8% with exports adding 0.6 pps and imports subtracting ...

Currency trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... time, reverse the "narrowing in Australian current account deficit" as Australian exports become less competitive and imports become cheaper. This would hit overall growth and reverse the improvement in the Australian economy. The opposite of the bump ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... downside risk for household spending." Not only this, whatever household spending is left would likely be spent on cheaper imports, thanks to the Australian dollar's higher exchange rate.

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
It got less press than the June quarter CPI report - which showed inflation in Australia remained below the RBA's target in the June quarter - but the Australian bank governor Philip Lowe's address to the Anika Foundation luncheon in Sydney was held ...