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Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... spending is further highlighted by the ABS' report on international trade and services for August that showed no growth in imports of goods and services for the month - more precisely, imports of consumption goods dropped the most, down 4% in August ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... - more expensive in the international market - and import prices - cheaper for Australians. Net exports (exports minus imports) contributed 0.4 percentage points to Australia's second quarter growth of 0.8% with exports adding 0.6 pps and imports subtracting ...

Currency trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... time, reverse the "narrowing in Australian current account deficit" as Australian exports become less competitive and imports become cheaper. This would hit overall growth and reverse the improvement in the Australian economy. The opposite of the bump ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... downside risk for household spending." Not only this, whatever household spending is left would likely be spent on cheaper imports, thanks to the Australian dollar's higher exchange rate.

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
It got less press than the June quarter CPI report - which showed inflation in Australia remained below the RBA's target in the June quarter - but the Australian bank governor Philip Lowe's address to the Anika Foundation luncheon in Sydney was held ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... surplus is lower than the US$45.16 billion surplus achieved in the same month last year as exports expanded less than imports. Stronger global demand sent Chinese exports up by 11.3% in the year to June that followed an 8.7% increase in the previous ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... entitled, "Is China "Exporting Deflation""? The paper found that China is not. This is because, among other things, US imports from China accounted for roughly 7.8% of total US imports. But that was using 2001 trade numbers. Fast forward to the present ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... stronger than the Eurozone's 1.70% and Japan's 1.6%. As telegraphed by the current account data, net exports (exports minus imports) provided the biggest subtraction from growth (0.7 percentage points). Also telegraphed ahead of the National Accounts' ...

Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... trade surplus narrowed by 15% to A$3.1 billion in March from an upwardly revised A$3.7 billion in the previous month as imports rose (5%) by more than exports (2%) over the month. The elephant's a good doggie. The surplus may have been less than the ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced plans to impose retroactive tariffs of up to 24% on Canadian softwood lumber imports that could expand to include Canadian dairy exports to the US. Not surprisingly, the Canadian dollar dropped to a 14-month low ...