Daily economic updateBY BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006 11:47AMAs expected, Australia's trade deficit narrowed to $1.1 billion in April, a 27.6 per cent improvement from the revised March shortfall of $1.5 billion and better than market expectations for a deficit of $1.4 billion. |
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