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Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... previous forecast of 1.5 percent as higher energy prices slows domestic spending and weakening offshore growth reduces exports. Today, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens will talk on the "Challenges for Economic Policy" at the Anika ...

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... this Friday, will likely reinforce the theme of slowing growth due to rising energy and raw material costs and weakening exports and flagging corporate profits. Europe Eurozone industrial production figures for May will be released on Monday. The annual ...

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... Australia's commodity export earnings are forecast to increase by 40 per cent next year to a record $212 billion. Agricultural exports including wheat, barley, canola, pulses, grain sorghum, cotton lint and seed, sugar and wine - long hit by drought ...

Loomis Sayles taps luxury goods and alt energy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... would avoid a recession because of stable consumer expenditure and a solid export market. "Both consumer spending and exports are underpinning enough growth to prevent the US from sagging into a recession. Obviously crude oil is a wild card and if it ...

Resources boom has only just begun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... bottlenecks and unlock the full force of its resource wealth, he said. "If Australia does everything right we could increase exports by an extra $100 billion per year by 2020. To do this however we'll need to produce twice as much growth each year as ...

Cracks appearing in Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... appear in the European economy. "High inflation is exerting pressure on household spending, the strong euro is threatening exports, the screws are being turned on credit terms, and the labour market is starting to wobble. This combination of negative ...

Asia will weather global slowdown: EFIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... G7." He said the biggest risk to Asia growth is rising food and fuel prices, not the global credit crisis or declining exports. "Until recently, most central banks were taking a wait and see position - hoping the food and fuel price increases would be ...

Unemployment stays steady

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... heading towards a three-track instead of a two-track economy. And while WA and Queensland may get the accolades for resource exports, NSW is still the country's mainstay jobs engine room.

ASEAN's mute economic muscle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... nations collectively represent approximately A$1.4 trillion in GDP and a combined population of 600 million. Their total exports last year were A$790 billion while imports amounted to A$688 billion. Direct investments in 2006 were A$55 billion. The relative ...

Goods and services trade deficit narrows to $2.7b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... still $300 million worse than January. The Bureau said, again in seasonally adjusted terms, goods and services credits (exports) rose $816 million or 4 per cent to $19,176 million driven by non-rural and other goods moving up $657 million or 5 per cent ...