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Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
The headline news over the weekend was the G7 meeting in Singapore where the world's seven richest nations met to discuss current and future economic hurdles. The group sees its member countries continuing to steam ahead in the high energy prices environment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... Reserve to maintain interest rates at their current level of 5.25 per cent has come with the announcement that the US trade deficit worsen to $US 68 billion from $65 billion as exports decreased by 1.1 per cent and imports rose by 1.1 per cent mostly ...

Labor unveils plan to export financial services

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... Management Export Taskforce (AFMET) to promote offshore investment in local fund managers and help address Australia's trade deficit. "There is significant scope to improve on our exports of financial services to our near neighbors," Rudd said, in particular ...

Interest rate rise bad news for super contrib increase proposals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
... interest rates. "[The] second interest rate rise in three months & will see their $40-a-month tax cut turn into a $40-a-month deficit," said Denis Orrock, general manager of Infochoice. Illustrating this, he said, a family with gross income of $60,000 ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2006
... to a less than expected 1.932 million annualised -- the lowest since November 2003. Meanwhile in Asia, Thailand's trade deficit widened to US$646 million in May - the biggest shortfall in 11 months - due largely to a higher import bill brought about ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
... greenback poses problems for the US because of its heavy dependence on foreign money to fund its ballooning current account deficit - currently around 7 per cent of GDP. No doubt the RBA Board is keeping a close eye on these developments as it deliberates ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
As expected, Australia's trade deficit narrowed to $1.1 billion in April, a 27.6 per cent improvement from the revised March shortfall of $1.5 billion and better than market expectations for a deficit of $1.4 billion. Exports, or what the ABS term as ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... agencies increased to US$19 billion. While the total US securities purchased in March exceeded the country's current trade deficit of US$62.0 billion, the US dollar's depreciation lessens the attractiveness of US securities and could ultimately become ...

Daily economic update

The US trade balance narrowed to a deficit of US$65.74 billion in February from a record US$68.59 billion deficit in the previous month. Market expectations were for a deficit of US$67.5 billion. US exports fell by 1.2 per cent as a 5.8 per cent drop ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2006
... WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket shrugged off weakness in top stock Telecom and news of a monster current account deficit to close higher for the second straight day. The benchmark NZSX-50 gross index ended 9.53 points higher at 3571.23, while ...