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Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... have weakened in recent months, and slowing economic activity in many foreign economies is damping the prospects for U.S. exports.' Downside risk to US (and global) growth remains. For those still not convinced that the US is already in recession, tonight's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... Stock Average to its lowest close in almost five years, as the seizure in credit markets curbed demand for the nation's exports and threatened to worsen the economic slowdown. The benchmark Nikkei shed 317.19 points, or 3.03 per cent, to 10,155.90. HONG ...

Weak growth confirms RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... strings. While it is true that the economy have received support from strong company profits, business investment and exports, it is what happens to private consumption spending that is more important because it accounts for more than 60 per cent of ...

One down, more to follow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... a negative impact on the Australian economy going forward. This is because it would reduce the demand for Australia's exports and put downward pressure on commodity prices. Expect further RBA easing.

Today's the day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... from a deficit of A$7.3 billion to a surplus of A$559 million in the June quarter on the back of a 20 per cent rise in exports of goods and a 4 per cent increase in service exports. This will make a positive contribution to second quarter real GDP. Australian ...

ETS is upside down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... that don't have these cost imposts. "It would be like the Howard government introducing the GST but only applying it to exports," he said. Carmody said a much more effective model would be to penalise consumption of emissions and so discourage people ...

Let's make the ETS workable: BCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... said. Gailey said this is a huge problem because these exporting businesses collectively account for half of Australia's exports and employ up to one-tenth of the workforce."How can we come up with an emissions trading system that lets us take a first-mover ...

The saga continues

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... unchanged at 0.5 percent and noted that it has a negative view on Japan's economic growth given high inflation and slowing exports. Today's domestic releases will play second fiddle to the financial sector anxiety that characterised Wall Street trading ...

Same old same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... percent decline. This represents a sharp drop from the 4 percent annualised growth rate achieved in the March quarter. Exports fell as global growth slowed and domestic spending declined due to higher prices. And no good news for the UK. The Bank of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... Fed reported that "economic activity expanded in the second quarter, partly reflecting growth in consumer spending and exports." The Fed had darker news, too, however, saying that "inflation has been high, spurred by the earlier increases in the prices ...