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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... government debt is increasing by $50-60 billion, an amount that broadly matches each year's commonwealth government budget deficit. Diminishing interest in CGSs from overseas buyers At end March this year the AOFM reported that 60.4% of these Commonwealth ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... continued weak global growth, would erode US export competitiveness - and it appears it already has with the US trade deficit rising significantly to US$41.1 billion in May from US$37.4 billion in April - as well as putting downward pressure on US inflation. ...

S&P outlook downgrade extends to banks

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
Standard and Poor's (S&P) revised Australian sovereign rating outlook from 'stable' to 'negative' has also been extended to the Australian major banks. The outlook downgrade is the first move of any of the major ratings agencies over the past 25 years ...

So what if Australia loses its 'AAA'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... that parliament is unlikely to legislate savings or revenue measures sufficient for the general government sector budget deficit to narrow materially and to be in a balanced position by the early 2020s." Got that! The now good - it was bad back pre-GFC ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... reading for new orders (59.9) with new export orders up to 53.0 in June and employment advancing to a 52.7 reading. US trade deficit The US' trade gap widened to US$41.1 billion in May from the previous month's shortfall of US$37.4 billion. This is worse ...

Defined benefit deficit at $182bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
... $340 billion, according to APRA figures. But this amount is backed by only $158 billion in net assets - amounting to a deficit of $182 billion. The announcement by the Queensland state government in its 2016-17 budget that it will be "repatriating" half ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... noted at its policy meeting last week - for "moderate expanding trend" in the economy. Japan registered a ¥40.72 billion deficit in May. While this is an improvement from the ¥215.35 billion shortfall posted in the same month last year, it's much less ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... Supermarket and grocery stores (-0.2%), Liquor retailing (-1.4%) and Other specialised food retailing (-1.1%). Australia trade deficit Australia's trade balance remains in the red but the A$1.58 billion deficit recorded in April represents a substantial ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... fixed income investments is 6%. He said some of the factors influencing this were strong retail sales, reduction of fiscal deficit and improved government spending and strong industrial production. The latter point, he added, was precipitated partly ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... February and March, respectively. Although the latest figure represents a sharp turnaround from April 2015's US$523 million deficit, this was achieved due to a bigger drop in imports than exports. Imports declined by 14.9% in the year to April while ...