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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... will release the minutes of its August 5 board meeting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases data on merchandise imports for July, and the Melbourne Institute issues its quarterly wages report. In company news today, OneSteel, Consolidated Media ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... index futures contract gained 66 points, or 1.36 per cent, to 4,917. Today, Australian Bureau of Statistics merchandise imports data for June is released along with The Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin. Woodside Petroleum Ltd tables its second quarter ...

Macq Life imports underwriting and claims head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macquarie Life appointed Sally Phillips as head of underwriting and claims. Previously, Phillips founded one of South Africa's top five life insurance firm's, Discovery Life, and held the role of chief medical officer and head of underwriting within ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... the June share price index was down 10 points at 5,409. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases merchandise imports data for May. The Australian stock market closed in positive territory yesterday, buoyed by strong gains in the resource and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... the June share price index was up 22 points at 5,975. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases merchandise imports data for April. Hutchison Telecommunications Australia Ltd holds its annual general meeting in Sydney. The Australian share ...

ASEAN's mute economic muscle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... A$1.4 trillion in GDP and a combined population of 600 million. Their total exports last year were A$790 billion while imports amounted to A$688 billion. Direct investments in 2006 were A$55 billion. The relative aggregate size of ASEAN is therefore ...

Goods and services trade deficit narrows to $2.7b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... coke and briquettes, which rose $341 million or 23 per cent. Offsetting the hard commodities export growth figures were imports of machinery and industrial equipment which rose $232 million or 17 per cent. Imports of consumption goods also increased ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... developed countries is also causing exports to run ahead as while exports grew 21.6 per cent in ten months to January, imports grew one-third faster at 29.6 per cent. Meanwhile, the robust performance of the economy, including tax revenues climbing 26 ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... overtaken Japan. Highlighting the US-China dichotomy further, while they are a major export market we offset this with huge US imports, often loaded up due to military purchases. The value of our China trade growing at 20 per cent annum just adds to ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... is on the up, despite the downturn in the OECD developed economies, led by the USA, is China. Incidentally, prices for imports from China jumped 0.8 per cent in January, the largest monthly increase since the Labor Department began reporting the data ...