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Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... government and the PBOC scope for further stimulation if necessary. Then again, they may not have to, especially if the exports numbers - up 9.9% in the year to September - and the surge in iron ore imports - reported yesterday mark the start of a new ...

Market Wrap - late AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... materials would have got a bit of a boost from the Chinese numbers. The Chinese surplus was stronger than expected and Chinese exports were stronger than expected." Chinese exports grew at roughly twice the rate expected in September. BHP Billiton was ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... fluke nor cooked after all? Wait there's more. Another Xmas treat came our way over the weekend via news that Chinese exports grew by 9.9% in the year to September - much more than expectations for only a 5.5% gain. Not only that, its imports increased ...

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... other central bankers debase their currencies -- that which erodes Australia's competitiveness and price out Australia's exports of goods and services. No way hosay, especially not in a shrinking market for international trade. These are the very same ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... estimated to lop off another four percentage points off the growth of their already receding GDP. Woe to China -- its exports would slow by more, if not altogether collapse. Woe to Asia - its trade with China (and to Europe and to the US) would shrink. ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... A$2 billion in August from A$1.5 billion in the previous month - the widest in more than four years - as the 3% drop in exports more than offset the 1% dip in imports. No prizes for guessing but could this be due to slowing export markets, a dear A$ ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... note economist Ross Garnaut". According to the AFR, Prof Garnaut warned that, "Australia's terms of trade, or income from exports, would be hit by three "mutually reinforcing negatives" under way in China." "The first was a shift in China's economy away ...

Water an alternative with yield

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... in capital growth," said Richard Lourey, head of real assets, Tyndall AM. Water valuations sit in line with commodities exports such as rice and cotton, he said, as resource and commodities companies search for water supplies to run operations from a ...

Star alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... on the domestic currency. This will have the added bonus of boosting business confidence, especially those operating in exports and import-competing industries. Speaking of business confidence, the final results of the Federal Government's FY 2011/12 ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... for the eurozone marked the 14th straight month of manufacturing shrinkage. And then, there's the 5.8% fall in Japanese exports in the year to August - the 3rd consecutive decline and the biggest drop in six months. Wait... there's more. US jobless claims ...