Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 843 results for "Exports"

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... blessing in disguise for it would only hasten Beijing's efforts at rebalancing its economy away from manufacturing and exports and into the more domestically-orientated services sector. Statista.com figures show that China's services sector has ...

Chief economist update: US economic growth is slowing and accelerating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... fixed investment to 0.69 percentage points from 0.21 pps in the September 2018 quarter. But wait there's more. Net exports might have subtracted 0.22 pps to growth, but this is an improvement from the September quarter's 1.99 pps deduction. The ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... increase in Japanese real wages. Japan's external accounts is the problem. As per the National Accounts report, "...exports had a negative contribution of 0.3 percentage points." Although exports of goods and services rose by 0.9% in the December ...

Chief economist update: UK economy slows on Brexit woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... "reflects softer activity abroad and the greater effects from Brexit uncertainties at home." "Softer activity abroad". UK exports fell by 0.9% in the year to the December 2018 quarter. While the sharp 1.7% increase in imports indicated continued strength ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... same period. Normally, a depreciating currency would boost equity prices. The rationale being a cheaper currency boosts exports and company profits et cetera. But in the case of Manila, the peso's depreciation compounded the inflationary pressure ...

Brexit is history: Chief Economists Forum

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... actually an economic view." Explaining his thinking, Tinker said the Mayor of Calais - the main port of entry for British exports heading to Europe - was unlikely to thwart the arrival of British exports simply if an agreement wasn't reached. Tinker ...

Asia Funds Passport takes flight

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... executive Sally Loane said. "Addressing Australia's complex, uncompetitive tax system will enable the Passport to promote the exports of Australian funds." Loane praised the ARFP, and said the initiative was the result of a decade of co-operation by ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
"Not happy, Jan!" For the young ones, the quote refers to Telstra's "yellow pages" advertisement back in the days before the internet, when you, I and Irene scoured through pages and pages (two volumes of it) of listings to buy stuff or get our ...

Budget surplus unlikely as economy stalls: Fitch

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... China's shift from heavy industry investments, which Fitch Solutions believes "bodes poorly" for Australian mining exports and revenue. As mining made a large portion of the government's unexpected 2018 revenue increase, it is possible that exports ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... where GDP slowed to an annual rate of 2.8% in the September quarter (from 3.1% in the previous one) - bears this out with exports contributing zilch to third quarter GDP. Sure, the contribution from net exports was positive 0.3 percentage points but ...