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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... inflation report, it wouldn't have cut the official cash rate down to a record low 1.75% two days ago. The country's trade deficit narrowed to A$2.16 billion in March, down 29% from February's A$3.04 billion shortfall. This is lower than market expectations ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... Michigan consumer sentiment index - down to 89.7 in April from 91.0 in March and below the 92.0 expected. Philippine trade deficit The Philippines' trade deficit widened to US$1.10 billion in February from the US$0.84 billion gap recorded in the same ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
Australia trade balance Australia's trade deficit widened to A$3.4 billion in February, an 8% increase from the previous month's A$3.2 billion shortfall and disappointing consensus expectations for an improvement to a A$2.5 billion trade gap. Exports ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... February - the strongest since December 2011 - from 0.6% in the year to January. Hong Kong trade balance Hong Kong's trade deficit narrowed by 7.6% to HK$33.1 billion in February compared with the same month last year. While this appears to be good news ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... February - the highest since October last year's 0.6% annual rate - from 0.4% in the previous month. Philippines trade deficit The Philippines' trade deficit widened to US$2.64 billion in January from US$0.60 billion in the previous month underlining ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... the domestic economy ended the previous year on a strong note but that this momentum is continuing. Australia's trade deficit shrank by a bigger-than-expected A$2.94 billion in January from A$3.52 billion in the previous month (a 16.7% improvement) as ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... recovering moderately". But it is not. Yesterday's disappointing trade data adds to the list of "but it is nots". Japan's trade deficit came in at Â¥114.5 billion (US$955 million) in September -sharply missing consensus expectations for a Â¥84.4 ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... disappointing AP private payrolls report - up 185K in July vs. expectations for up 210K - and a bigger than expected trade deficit - US$43.8 billion in June vs. expectations of US$43.0 bil - released on the same day as the ISM non-manufacturing index. ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... Nasdaq Composite Index gained 22.71 points (0.45 per cent) to 5,099.23. Economic reports showed a big drop in the US trade deficit in April, slower growth in the US services sector in May and a solid 201,000 new private-sector jobs in May. The Federal ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... 7.2% over the quarter and imports increasing by 1.8%. Last night's US trade data showing an upward revision in the trade deficit to US$51.4 billion in March - the biggest gap since October 2008 -- from the initial estimate of US$42.0 billion could bring ...