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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... HK$37.2 billion in October from the previous month but was 25.5% higher than the HK$29.7 billion recorded 12 months earlier. Exports fell by 1.8% in the year to October. Shipments to Asia declined by 0.9% over the period while exports to Germany and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... posting a ¥496.2 billion surplus in October, down from 497.6 billion in September and less than the expected ¥615 billion. Exports dropped by 10.3% in the year to October -- the 13th straight month of decline and worse than market expectations for ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... rate to 0.8% from 0.7%. External demand contributed 0.5 percentage points to September growth on the 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 ...

A mining renaissance courtesy of President Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... been desperately trying to achieve since the 'Great Recession'. The sharp gains in two of Australia's biggest commodity exports - along with a lower Australian dollar (for there seems to be stopping the Fed from raising interest rates in December now) ...

Markets fear Trump effect on global trade

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... protectionist trade policies. "Australian shares would be particularly vulnerable to this given our high trade exposure (exports are 21% of GDP in Australia against 13% in the US)," he said. Tim Harcourt, previously the chief economist at Austrade and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... the US$42.0 billion recorded in September. This compares with the US$61.3 billion surplus posted in October last year. Exports dropped by 7.3% in the year to October (an improvement from the 10.0% contraction in the previous month) while imports fell ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2016
... since the 56.4 level recorded in July and was driven by strong increases in new orders (up 6.4 points to 54.7 in October); exports (up 6.0 points to 56.0); and sales (up 3.6 points to 55.0). Employment advanced by 1 point in October but remained in contraction ...

Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... September quarter after detracting 1.2 pps in the previous one. And then there's the curious case of the surge in soybean exports - it added 0.9 pps to overall exports 1.2 percentage point contribution to growth. The point is the US economy is not as ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... ¥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 Korea's economic growth eased slightly to 0.7% in the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... August's 6.3% gain (that was the fastest pace in five months). This also came amid earlier reports of a 10.0% drop in exports in the year to September and a 1.9% fall in imports. Rebalancing? UK labour market Despite the persistent uncertainty surrounding ...