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Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
As Australia's extraordinary mining boom peters out, the Government is finally getting behind financial services exports and will invest $6 billion in free trade agreements (FTA) in Asia. "If we could lift our service exports like higher education ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... sooner-rather-than-later lift off. More so because the US GDP report showed that the strong US dollar contributed to "net exports" contributing the biggest drag on first quarter growth - minus 1.25 percentage points - with exports slumping at an annualised ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... June. More so, because it is the strong US dollar - yes it has gone down lately but it's still strong - that caused 'net exports' to be the biggest drag on first quarter growth. A sooner-rather-than-later - while the BOJ and the ECB are just in the early ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... quarter. It's the strong US dollar (coupled with weak global growth). The rise and rise in the greenback contributed to "net exports" contributing the biggest drag on first quarter growth - minus 1.25 percentage points - with exports slumping at an annualised ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... 17,977.04 points. On Monday, the Australian market tumbled following weaker than expected data from China that showed falls in exports and imports in the year to March. Mr K'Nell said many investors were likely to sit on the sidelines until the release ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... slumping 20.1% in Feb), it's unfathomably unbelievable for the surplus to drop that much. But collapsed it did because... exports - the minuend in the subtraction function from which the subtrahend (imports) is taken away from - has tumbled by even more ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... single currency fell to $US1.0583 ($A1.38) from $US1.0599 late in New York on Friday. China's customs administration said exports fell by a surprising 15 per cent year-on-year in March, while imports tumbled 12.7 per cent, in the latest data showing ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... nominated in December last year -- perhaps the good Gov thinks it's even below that now given that "Prices for key Australian exports have also been falling and therefore Australia's terms of trade are continuing to decline - and the RBA said so in the ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... run-off elections for a second presidential term - falling commodity prices and the Brazilian real. Prices of its biggest exports - iron ore (13% of total exports) and crude oil (8.4%) - have nearly halved, denting the country's export earnings and by ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... The euro got as low as $US1.0466, its lowest level since January 2003. Investors fear the strong US dollar will harm US exports and emerging market economies, analysts said. LONDON - European stocks in the eurozone's main markets mostly rose, ending ...