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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... contracts traded. In economics news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes international merchandise imports and motor vehicles sales data for May. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry speaks at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... contracts traded. In economics news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes international merchandise imports and motor vehicles sales data for May. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry speaks at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... deficit widened to US$40.285 billion in April as a 0.7 per cent fall in exports more than offset the 0.4 per cent decline in imports. The rest of the world is buying less "made in the USA" goods and services. America is consuming less "made outside the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... was $HK47.26 billion ($A7.29 billion). Chinese data showed exports rose 48.5 per cent in May from a year earlier, with imports up 48.3 per cent, confirming unsourced information a day earlier that had sparked a broad rally in Shanghai and European shares. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... Australian Retail Deposits Conference in Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases international merchandise imports data for April, and the labour price index for March. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment for May ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... was slightly more than the $US38.5 billion that had been expected by analysts, the Commerce Department said. A rise in imports to the United States was seen as another sign of a slow, but growing, economic recovery. But there had been a rocky start to ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... February retail sales. Yes, again, because of the ballooning trade deficit. Exports rose by 1.4 per cent in February but imports rose by more - 2.4 per cent. This implies that Australia is growing more than its trading partners. Oh wait, Australia is ...

End game II

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act because as in today - it wants to bolster its economy by increasing exports and reducing demand for imports. At one stroke of a pen, tariffs on over 20,000 goods imported into America were raised to record levels. Many economists ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... tact. The World Bank "advices" that a stronger renminbi would help dampen inflation pressure by lowering the price of imports and help rebalance the economy away from industry and investment towards services and consumption. The IMF declares that China's ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... must be because of the undervalued yuan. But who cares? China is giving back to the world as much as it takes. Chinese imports jumped by 44.7 per cent in the year to Feb following a whopping 85.5 per cent rise in the previous month. Australia is one ...