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Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... export for fiscal year 2009/2010. You'll see how a big a deal this is when you note that only 4.8 per cent of Australian exports were shipped to the US during the same period - or that 27 countries in the European Union combined only bought 7.9 per cent ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... 1930, America enacted the 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 ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... Chinese real GDP expanded by 11.1 per cent. More recently, August data show that industrial production, retail sales, exports and investment continue to expand at double-digit rates. Looks like Australian Resource investors could afford another five ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... Japan has already been hurt. Safe haven buying of yen has put and is putting downward pressure on its sole growth engine - exports - and exacerbating its two decades old battle with deflation. My, oh my! Day 3. That's last night. Wall Street up slightly. ...

Aussie equities get clean bill of health

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... doesn't have the same downward leverage to housing starts as it did three or four years ago." he said. And with Australia's exports now increasingly weighted to China, "what we export to the US has never been less important as it is today," he said.

Food security back on the radar

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... Corp, a bid Potash later deemed as "grossly inadequate", while other news in this area see Russia now banning any wheat exports, a Chinese firm securing the rights to 2.8 million hectares of the Congo for palm oil production and South Korea has 690,000 ...

Numero Dos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... sector remains the country's only growth engine. But the National Accounts data showed that the contribution from net exports halved to only 0.3 percentage point in the second quarter from 0.6 point in the first. Why? The yen's appreciation is why. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... Centennial Coal firmed two cents to $6.06 despite a 28 per cent fall in net profit in 2009/10. But the company said it expects exports to rise in the current year. Leighton Holdings surged $1.59, or 5.5 per cent, to $30.49 after reporting a 39 per cent ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... report shows that except for imports, all components were in expansion territory. This is good because it signals that net exports (exports minus imports) would be a lesser drag on growth than it was in the second quarter. Don't know if you still remember ...