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Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... trade surplus with the United States, with this surplus accounting for a disproportionate share of the overall U.S. trade deficit. India met two of the three criteria for the first time in this Report, having a significant bilateral surplus with the ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... billion of Chinese imports, with Factset reporting: "Trump reiterated his administration has told China it wants trade deficit [with China] reduced by $100 billion." China's retaliation was swift but modest. It announced just US$3 billion worth of US ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... presage, the country's low unemployment rate (4.3% in the September quarter).... and back to trade. The country's trade deficit narrowed to £2.75bn in September from £3.46bn in the previous month, way below expectations for a £4.60bn, as exports increased ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Timely or well-timed but the release of China's trade balance just as US President Trump lands in the Middle Kingdom should help partly assuage Donald's displeasure with the US-China trade imbalance. China's trade surplus contracted sharply to US$38.2 ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... trade war - and erode America's export competiveness as well as put downward pressure on inflation. Already, the US trade deficit widened to US$48.5 billion in January - the largest since March 2012 - from US$44.3 billion in the previous month as imports ...

Year of the Rooster deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... billion in the previous month and a surplus of US$28.2 billion in the same month in 2016. This was the first monthly trade deficit recorded since February 2014 as surging imports compounded a fall in exports. Exports fell by 1.3% in the year to February ...

Buying American

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... of his campaign promises if the latest stats on the country's international trade are anything to go by. The US trade deficit narrowed to US$44.3 billion in the month of December, down from the previous month's shortfall of US$45.7 billion and less than ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... nice sequel to the horror 0.5% contraction in Australia's third quarter GDP growth, a widening of the country's trade deficit, that is. Australia's trade deficit rose by 21.3% to A$1.54 billion in October from A$1.27 billion in the previous month. This ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... from earlier predictions of 1.0% to 2.0%) this year and 1.0% - 3.0% in 2017. Hong Kong trade balance Hong Kong's trade deficit narrowed by 6.3% to HK$37.2 billion in October from the previous month but was 25.5% higher than the HK$29.7 billion recorded ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
Australia trade balance Australia's trade deficit narrowed by 5.0% to A$2.01 billion in August from A$2.12 billion in July (revised from A$2.41 billion), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show. This is better than market expectations for a ...