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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... Singapore (-8.6%) declined. However, exports to Japan (+7.7%), the US (+0.7%) and Europe (+3.8%) increased. Philippine imports jumped by 30.8% with foreign purchases for most categories rising except for mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials. ...

China crashlands back to GFC days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... since the GFC days when exports plummeted by 26.3% in May 2009. China is not buying "Made outside China" stuff. China's imports declined by 13.8% in the year to February - although an improvement from the 18.8% tumble in January, it was worse than market ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... billion in the previous month (a 16.7% improvement) as exports increased by 1.1% over the month at the same time that imports decreased by 1.1%. But while the Australian trade figures hogged the headlines - as they should for trade is one of the major ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... in household consumption indicates that the Q4 inventory build-up is anything but unwanted). Net exports (exports minus imports) provided no contribution in the fourth quarter with the 0.1 pp contribution from exports negated by the 0.1 subtraction from ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... export volume and voila, economy grows and inflation rises due to expansion of economic activity plus the higher prices of imports. Neat, 'ey? But a cheaper currency also leads to a decrease in demand for imports from the "global economy" - in the present ...

Healthcare needs flagged as investment opportunity

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... beverages and groceries - that's about 25% of manufacturing these days and it's growing quite well. Part of it is replacing imports and seeing strong export growth." She added medical items and building materials were all contributing to manufacturing ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... November and 2.4% in October. The weakness in domestic consumption is further underscored by the bigger than expected drop in imports - down by 18% in December from a year ago. The weak external environment is providing no support either with export ...

Cheers to unmet expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... year to November from 3.9% in the previous month - easing the hurdle among retailers from passing on the dearer price of imports. Wait there's more. With the core inflation rate at the bottom end of the RBA's 2%-3% target, the Australian central bank ...

China's green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... improvement from November's 7.1% drop and consensus expectations for a deeper 8.0% fall. There were also green shoots in China's imports numbers - they went down 7.6% in the January period. Still, a big drop but better than the previous month's 9.2% ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... June to 2.5% at the end of September. Thanks to the 1.5 percentage point contribution from net exports (exports minus imports) and household consumption's 0.4 pp add (up from 0.3 pp contribution in the second quarter). GDP is not made up of business ...