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Rising exports drive wider surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... expectations for a €22 billion surplus, driven by stronger export growth (6.0% in the year to November) relative to growth in imports (5.0%). The trade data continues the latest string of improving growth stats in the region that include stronger than ...

Machineries not in order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... President Trump's trade policies. More so, given his latest rhetoric on cross-border tax - i.e. export earnings tax free but imports taxed at company tax rates.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... (-1.2%); India (-1.2%); and the US (-1.8%). Shipments increased to South Korea (+11.9%); Malaysia (+5.9%); and China (+4.4%). Imports shrank by 8.8% over the 12 months to November after dropping by 16.5% in the previous month. This is less than market ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... billion in the previous month. This is larger than the expected A$0.8 billion trade gap and driven by a larger increase in imports (2.3%) relative to exports (1.4%) over the month. It's indeed a scary story considering that net exports (exports minus ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... Federal election was a dampening influence on Australian business confidence in November. For others, competition from imports continued to constrain business while the flow-through from conditions in agriculture is having mixed outcomes, with positive ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... to Asia declined by 0.9% over the period while exports to Germany and the UK dropped by 15.3% and 13.5%, respectively. Imports increased by 0.5% in the twelve months to October. Hong Kong lifted its purchases from: Korea (39.7%), India (38.2%), the US ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... the year to October -- the 13th straight month of decline and worse than market expectations for an 8.6% contraction. Imports decreased by 16.5%, also disappointing expectations for a 16.3% fall - the 20th consecutive month of year-on-year contraction. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... back of a rebound in exports which increased by 2.0% in the third quarter (after a 1.5% fall in the June quarter) while imports declined for the fourth consecutive quarter - down by 0.6% in the three months to September (the same rate as in the June ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... Exports dropped by 7.3% in the year to October (an improvement from the 10.0% contraction in the previous month) while imports fell by 1.4% over the same period (also better than September's 1.9% year-on-year decline). UK industrial production The annual ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... better-than-expected trade balance - markets expected a ¥341.80 billion surplus - was driven by a sharper contraction in imports (down 16.3% in the year to September) relative to exports (down 6.9%). South Korea GDP Advanced estimates show that South ...