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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... 80 points, or 1.25 per cent, to 6295 on a volume of 5,610 contracts. US stocks fell overnight after a broadening trade deficit triggered fears about the economy's health, and as the Federal Reserve voiced concerns on inflation this week. The Dow Jones ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... record 6355.5. The all ordinaries rose 13.8 points at a record 6351.8. NEW YORK - US stocks fell after a broadening trade deficit triggered fears surrounding the economy, as the Federal Reserve voiced concerns on inflation this week. The fall also followed ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
... the relationship between the two countries. The US is the largest market for Chinese goods, so much so that the trade deficit reached $US233 billion last year and until now was expected to ballon even further. Chinese foreign reserves now exceed a world ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... representing a 20 per cent seasonally adjusted increase of $2,493 million over the fourth quarter to $15,096 million. The deficit on the balance of goods and services rose $2,089 million to $3,554 million. This news is disturbing at a time when the economy ...

Australia to become an investment exporter: Perpetual

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
... Australia will become an exporter of capital," said Gonzales. "Exporting capital should improve the overall current account deficit and lead to upward pressure on the Australian dollar." This could however have significant impacts on our export industries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... fell by 1 per cent over the quarter and 0.1 per cent over the year. The US has posted its fifth straight record trade deficit, now at US$764 billion, with about a third of that being a result of the US$232 billion deficit that it has with China. US trade ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
... shows that Australia's trade imbalance increased in October by $535 million on the revised September figure to tally to a deficit of $1.26 billion. Exports rose by about 2 per cent to $18,047 million whereas imports rose by about 5 per cent to $19.310 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... expectations since 1990. The European Union's statistics office Eurostat has reported a 24 per cent increase in the trade deficit with China until July of this year and a 19 per cent one with Japan over the same period. Meanwhile Bank Indonesia which ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... in the European and Asian markets as a whole. Australian Bureau of Statistics data has revealed that the national trade deficit has fallen to $308 million from $320 million the month before. During this period exports increased by 1.4 per cent to $18 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... which fell from first place to sixth as a result of concerns about the importance of its ever widening current account deficit, the size of the government and the slowing economy. A fuller report will be undertaken in the next Financial Standard, within ...