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Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... ITC is an agribusiness company with an MIS business. ITC generates revenues through a timber processing business that exports to New Zealand, Europe and China and, separately, a forestry division that has more than 175,000 hectares of diversified plantations. ...

ING IM backs Asian bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... this assessment. Rob Drijkoningen, head of global emerging markets at ING Investment Management, said China's fall in exports has affected the country's economic growth but it still remains strong. "The country is keeping to its tradition of boosting ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... Football Club as most Australians know. Western nations protested the way China was flooding the world with its cheap exports. But now, the US might think twice before raising its voice to one of its biggest creditors lest US-bound Chinese money disappear ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... cut its key interest rate for the sixth time to 1.5 per cent and urged banks to increase corporate lending amid sinking exports and weak domestic demand. Bank Indonesia also surprised by cutting its benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 8.75 per cent. ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... are buckling. As more economic dominoes fall, the more punches it receives. Bloomberg reported last night that Chinese exports fell by 2.2 per cent in the year to November - the first time in seven years. This is bad for China. At the same time, imports ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... gobbled the big economies of the US, the Eurozone, Japan and the UK. As the GFC continues to bite, demand for Australia's exports will continue to decelerate. Falling commodity prices will compound weakening exports. Further, they argue that the negative ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... news. Below are some of the overnight news headlines reported by Bloomberg., Jobless Rolls in US Rise to 25-Year High, Exports Plunge on Global Slump, US Budget Deficit Swells to Record $237.2 Billion as Bank Stakes Bought, Germany Enters Recession After ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... UK, like its global peers, is finding that the heavy load of falling consumer spending, business bankruptcies, declining exports and general loss of confidence due to diminishing wealth -- as property and asset markets dive -- too much to bear. This ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... support going forward as Australia's trading partners, faced with diminishing wealth, finds better value in the country's exports of goods and services. Yes, Australia will go into recession - if all things remain equal. But they are not.

It's the war, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... smaller-than-expected contraction was also helped by a 5.8 per cent increase in government consumption and a 5.9 per cent expansion in exports in the third quarter. This aside, the third quarter contraction is the second fall in quarterly US real GDP ...