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Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... projecting one in the fourth quarter. Attributable largely to weaker foreign demand and a record-high euro negatively effecting exports, Europe's manufacturing and services industries expanded at the slowest pace since June 2005. Industrial output fell ...

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
While Australian exports are booming and industry is rolling along so well that their biggest complaint is why there is too little labour supply, our high current account deficit (CAD) means we are more vulnerable than we think, no matter how much we ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... trade deficits that routinely breach several billion of dollars, these were the glory days. In 1906 fifty per cent of exports went to the UK while wool accounted for one-third of our total export tally, which of course is why agriculturalists were our ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... the world standing at US$270 billion, more than triple what they were just three years ago. Economic activity, growing exports and a growing affluence is why India should not be viewed as a single country, but a 'country within a country'. "It has poor ...

Singapore's wealthy to defy global downturn

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
Singapore's fund managers could be in for a battle for new money as the country's focus on exports, international trade and tourism will help it ride out a predicted global economic downturn from 2008-09 and increase the number of wealthy individuals ...

Aus and India in free trade talks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... Preliminary results from the study found India has the fourth largest merchandise export market at $10.1 billion worth of exports. This figure represents six per cent of Australia's total merchandise exports. Warren Truss, Federal Government's minister ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... address future food shortages, limit their ecological impact on native bushland, and further boost our soft commodities exports to Asia.

Australian economy to lose shine in 2025

... market has declined from 1.45 in 1996 to 1.15 per cent in 2005, the equivalent of nearly $10 billion annually in lost exports. "The slowdown in Australia's services exports has occurred against a backdrop of one of the strongest periods of global growth ...

Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... Subbaraman claim the soft consumer demand in the second quarter is likely to be a temporary phenomenon. Capital spending and exports are also expected to strengthen in the second half of 2007, and home building activity is forecast to revive from its ...

Macq steaks $700m fund

... Pastoral Services' director Tim Hornibrook said that the fund would benefit from the country's leading role in red meat exports. According to Meat and Livestock Australia, the country is the largest exporter of beef based on value on US$3.5 billion ...