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Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... release from Friday shows while our monthly trade balance is stuck on -$1 billion, the interesting thing is that services exports are trending up against goods exports that are trending flat. The implication here is that services are selling better for ...

Surging dollar prompts mixed views on fall-out

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
... dip to 75 cents over the next few months. Others are tipping sizeable falls in the next few years due to lower commodity exports demand, at least in terms of buyer prices rather than volumes. Reinforcing the currency sentiment, the proportion of respondents ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... third place overall for the year. Although the US economy continues to have problems it benefited from the best growth in exports for a decade of 14 per cent. In other international news the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged at 3.75 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... significantly in March to $US6.9 billion after the $US23.8 billion recorded in February. The 7 per cent rise in year on year exports to $US83 billion was meager compared to the 52 per cent rise achieved in February. Chinese GDP has been negative in the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
... currencies in the British pound, yen, euro, and South Korean won to allow their currency to be benchmarked against. Chinese exports of steel, furniture and textiles are likely to be the next on the list of products that may incur tariffs by the US. Most ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... 3140 per cent and zinc concentrates up 11 per cent. On the other hand the Macquarie Bank research shows that crude steel exports rose by 369 per cent and zinc by 402 per cent although aluminium exports fell by 42 per cent.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... consistently good economic signals with the national surplus rising by 7.7 per cent in February compared to a year earlier. While exports grew by 9.7 per cent over the period, the fastest rate for eight months, imports fell from 11.1 per cent to 10.1 ...

Going nuts over macadamias

... 'kindal kindal' in aboriginal, macadamia is the only nut native to Australia and is considered one of the country's top exports. Australia is the world's largest producers of macadamias, accounting for 43 per cent of global production last year, or $300 ...

Daily economic round-up

... Glenn Stevens noted some concern over the inflationary pressures that rising wages have had in a tight labour market. Exports from China have grown by 52 per cent over the last year which is there fastest for a dozen years and significantly outpaces ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... measure was published. The greatest decline was by the textiles, clothing and footwear industry. Nevertheless manufacturing exports have increased by 15 per cent over the last year. Economic analysis from the ANZ bank concludes that NSW experienced a ...