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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... £5.14 billion in January as exports increased by 1.2% -- the fastest monthly growth rate in 6 months - in March while imports inched up by 0.1% over the same period. Financial markets expected a March deficit of £4.20 billion. Greece trade deficit ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... significantly better than market expectations for an 8.4% drop and an improvement from the previous month's 11.4% decline. Imports decreased by 9.6% in the year to April following a 13.2% drop in the previous month. Taiwan's economy's currently in recession ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... trade deficit recorded in 12 months (since March 2015) resulted from a 4% increase in exports and a smaller 1% gain in imports. Australia new home sales Likewise, data from the Housing Industry Association (HIA) shows that sales of new homes in the country ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... decrease in nonresidential fixed investment, a deceleration in PCE, a downturn in federal government spending, an upturn in imports, and larger decreases in private inventory investment and in exports that were partly offset by an upturn in state and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... US$0.84 billion gap recorded in the same month last year on the back of the continued decline in exports and increased imports. Export shipments fell by 4.5% in the year to February - the fastest rate of decline following a 3.9% contraction in the previous ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... million in March from S$8,612 million in the same month last year. Exports dropped by 14.1% in the year to March while imports fell 8.6%. India wholesale prices Wholesale prices in India declined by 0.85% in the year to March, a slight improvement from ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... expectations for a 10.0% increase and represents the first year-on-year expansion since June last year. While Chinese imports continued to decline, they fell by a lesser than expected 7.6% to US$130.9 billion in the year to March and a significant improvement ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... of rural goods declined by 5% partially offset by a 2% increase in non-rural goods. Services exports declined by 1.0%. Imports, goods and services debits, were practically unchanged (-0.2%) over the month. Purchases of consumption goods increased by ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... the case. This is because the improvement in the country's trade deficit was due to large declines in both exports and imports. Exports dropped by 10.4% to HK$205.5 billion in the year to February with shipments to China falling by 6.4%. Exports to Japan ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... the February from a US$591.5 million surplus in the same month in 2015 on the back of a drop in exports and increased imports. Mexican exports declined by 2.3% in the year to February due largely to a 45.8% drop in oil shipments, a 54.6% decline in mining ...