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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... record 6355.5. The all ordinaries rose 13.8 points at a record 6351.8. NEW YORK - US stocks fell after a broadening trade deficit triggered fears surrounding the economy, as the Federal Reserve voiced concerns on inflation this week. The fall also followed ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
... the relationship between the two countries. The US is the largest market for Chinese goods, so much so that the trade deficit reached $US233 billion last year and until now was expected to ballon even further. Chinese foreign reserves now exceed a world ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... fell by 1 per cent over the quarter and 0.1 per cent over the year. The US has posted its fifth straight record trade deficit, now at US$764 billion, with about a third of that being a result of the US$232 billion deficit that it has with China. US trade ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... expectations since 1990. The European Union's statistics office Eurostat has reported a 24 per cent increase in the trade deficit with China until July of this year and a 19 per cent one with Japan over the same period. Meanwhile Bank Indonesia which ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... in the European and Asian markets as a whole. Australian Bureau of Statistics data has revealed that the national trade deficit has fallen to $308 million from $320 million the month before. During this period exports increased by 1.4 per cent to $18 ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
The headline news over the weekend was the G7 meeting in Singapore where the world's seven richest nations met to discuss current and future economic hurdles. The group sees its member countries continuing to steam ahead in the high energy prices environment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... Reserve to maintain interest rates at their current level of 5.25 per cent has come with the announcement that the US trade deficit worsen to $US 68 billion from $65 billion as exports decreased by 1.1 per cent and imports rose by 1.1 per cent mostly ...

Labor unveils plan to export financial services

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... Management Export Taskforce (AFMET) to promote offshore investment in local fund managers and help address Australia's trade deficit. "There is significant scope to improve on our exports of financial services to our near neighbors," Rudd said, in particular ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2006
... to a less than expected 1.932 million annualised -- the lowest since November 2003. Meanwhile in Asia, Thailand's trade deficit widened to US$646 million in May - the biggest shortfall in 11 months - due largely to a higher import bill brought about ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
As 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. Exports, or what the ABS term as ...