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Emerging markets well placed for 2024

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
Robeco and Principal Asset Management predict strong performance in emerging markets this year from a macroeconomic and valuation standpoint. According to new research by Robeco, the five-year expected return forecast for emerging markets is 8.25% ...

Australia can avoid recession: Outlook

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
Australia should be able to evade a recession, despite the high inflationary environment, AMP's Shane Oliver says. Amid dire, bleak, and gloomy economic outlooks, Oliver - AMP's head of investment strategy, economics, and chief economist - said if further ...

China records historic trade surplus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
China has posted a record high trade surplus after another month of strong exports; however, headline inflation continued its upward trend. Chinese exports exceeded market expectations again in July, supported by shipments to ASEAN and the European ...

Chief economist update: Thank you, my frenemy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... Preliminary estimates by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that the country's merchandise goods trade surplus expanded to a record $13.3 billion in May from $9.7 billion in the previous month. This was driven by a 1% increase in imports ...

Chief economist update: China and Australia's interdependence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... Preliminary estimates by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that the country's merchandise goods trade surplus expanded to A$10.1 billion in April - the third highest on record. Sure, April's trade surplus was mainly driven by a 7% ...

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... index reached an all-time high of 61.8 in the same month. Wait there's more. While Australia's international trade surplus declined in February, it's still in surplus. The country's surplus on goods and services to the tune of $7.5 million ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... of cases of infections in a number of countries. A smaller 6.5% year-on-year increase in imports sent China's trade surplus to a new record high of US$78.17 billion in December 2020. The yuan's sharp appreciation has prompted the South China ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... million in October from the previous month. Betterer still and as the ABS reports: "For October there is a goods trade surplus of $4.84 billion (original, current price, merchandise trade basis)". This is despite Australian goods imports increasing by ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... together (33.2%). While Australia also buys most of its imports from China (27.7% of total imports), it has a bilateral trade surplus with Beijing (A$5,241 million as at August). With the Chinese economy dodging the pandemic-induced global recession ...

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... Goods and Services, Australia, Feb 2020" report underscores the trade effect of the coronavirus. Australia's trade surplus decreased by A$384 million to A$4.4 billion in February. Good news as Australia's trade account remains in surplus. But ...
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