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Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... 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 talk about decoupling from the US. MLC have just released ...

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

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released an analysis of how Australia's international trade profile has changed since Federation, confirming just how much our world has changed and why Asia and not the US is what drives our economy. ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
High oil prices and a shrinking US dollar signal an economic perfect storm looming on the horizon, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Simon Johnson, IMF chief economist told ABC TV's Business Lateline program last night that the credit crisis ...

Super for members, not nation building

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
... net exporter of capital, what this means is Australia will not run current account surpluses due to our continued trade deficit, but rather, Australia will lend more money to other countries than they lend to us," he added. Our net position in bonds ...

Economic round-up: Cheeseburger bill meets fat tax

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
Where legislation fails taxation often takes over and, following on from the cheeseburger bill, UK doctors and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit are now debating a fat tax. And what in the name of Ronald Macdonald is a 'Cheeseburger Bill'? When it's ...

Economic round-up: Lead balloon lifts exports

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2007
... imports have only risen by around 13 per cent. This improvement has Australia heading towards its lowest goods and services deficit in four years. According to the ABS, in the 11 months to May non-rural and other goods exports rose by 14 per cent to ...

Economic round-up: RBA thumbs-up

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... Payments release yesterday, indicated a -0.2 percentage point pullback on growth from the first quarter. The current account deficit fell by $121 million to $15.3 billion in the March quarter, a blowout on the consensus forecast but a minor improvement ...

Economic round-up: Economists weather forecast

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
Australia's current account deficit is expected to have narrowed in the first quarter where exports climbed and companies paid less interest on their overseas borrowings. The current account deficit is the broadest measure of trade because it includes ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... Darrouzet claimed that despite mining companies' cost cutting, revenues were "going out the door". With another monthly trade deficit, making our 60th in a row, our feeble export performance seems to support the failure of our infrastructure, particularly ...

Economic round-up: Yearning for a yuan inspired Asian euro

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... For Australia a revaluation of the yuan could pump up inflation without positively impacting Australia's current account deficit, according to Fariborz Moshirian, professor of finance in the Faculty of Business at the University of NSW. Regardless of ...