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AUD to fall in second half of 2008: KBC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... Explaining how they came to this conclusion, KBC said, "Business confidence is at its lowest level since September 2001, while exports will gradually weaken with the expected slowdown in Asia. "All this indicates that economic growth in Australia will ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... electricity generation. The huge growth of the Indian economy especially relative to developed countries is also causing exports to run ahead as while exports grew 21.6 per cent in ten months to January, imports grew one-third faster at 29.6 per cent. ...

From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... manufacturing output which slowed by 8 per cent year-on-year, from 16 per cent growth a month earlier. A slowdown in net exports is expected to see real wage growth cool off, but budget spending is only expected to rise moderately as the government strives ...

US Fed back in the lead

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... commentary now beginning to come through that we are starting to see the other side of sub-prime tunnel. In particular, exports are growing, the US "non-oil trade deficit" is being contained, while the USD should start to recover into 2009. How long ...

Market bottom approaches, recovery expected soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... noise because "the earnings and profitability of [US] companies are very high, and their balance sheets solid as a rock." "Exports are making a positive contribution to US economic growth thanks to the weak dollar and robust growth in Asia. Additional ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... budge. The terms of trade are a measure of the prices we pay for imports in relation to the prices we receive for our exports. It is often seen as a de facto indicator of a country's net wealth and so our terms of trade surging due to our commodities' ...

Local bonds better than the US: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... a commodity-based economy with a healthy outlook because it was linked to the developing Asian countries. "Australia's exports are being consumed by Asia and developing countries, whereas the US, with its financial assets, are having those doors closed ...

Unsticking the CAD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... it usually hovers in the 4 per cent zone. This of course leaves the big question of how in a time of record resources exports and strong terms of trade that we can't seem to budge the CAD. Indeed the only person who seems concerned is Trade Minister ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... has de-coupled sufficiently from the US economy not to follow it into what could be a deeper recession than 2001. While exports and profits will arguably drop, many economists believe Asia will be considerably less affected than in previous American ...

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... and energy prices and a credit tightening, China's underlying growth prospects appear to remain robust. In fact, China's exports exceeded America's for the first time last year. However, the more immediate challenge, according to Qian Qimin, Shanghai-based ...