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December trade balance widens to $2.55 billion: ABS

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
... December, allowing for seasonal influences, while exports of non-rural goods dipped two per cent. The ABS said the trade deficit for the three months to December narrowed to $5.98 billion, an improvement on the $6.71 billion shortfall in the previous ...

December goods and services deficit $2.5 billion

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
The Australian balance on goods and services was a deficit of $2.5 billion, seasonally adjusted, in December from an downwardly revised deficit of $1.7 billion in November, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today. Exports fell 2.0% in adjusted ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2004
... Australian dollar opened weaker today, as the United States currency gained support from a narrower-than-expected US trade deficit. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7757/59 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7770/75. The local ...

Trade deficit widens in November, expected to narrow ahead

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2004
Australia's trade deficit widened by a whisker in November but economists expect it to narrow in the months ahead as an end to the drought begins to show up in the nation's rural export receipts. The Australian balance of goods and services was a deficit ...

Midday Market wrap: $A weaker at noon, bonds firmer

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2003
... yields elsewhere which is keep downward pressure on the US currency. Other data out in the US showed the US current account deficit narrowed in the third quarter to $US135 billion. At 1200 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7427/33 compared ...

Morning Market Wrap: $A rises to fresh six-year high overnight

... six-year high of 74.55 US cents against the US dollar early in the overnight session ahead of the release of current account deficit numbers for the September quarter plus consumer price index and industrial production numbers for November. At the same ...

Midday Market Wrap: Stocks weaker at noon

... 3214.9. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was down seven points at 3213 - a 0.5 point deficit to the underlying index - on a volume of 9,034 contracts. ABN AMRO Morgans director of equities Bill Chatterton said despite ...

NAB predicts a 25bps increase in interest rates by the RBA

... a rate change. NAB's latest data review report has indicated that the balance of payments is showing a current account deficit of $11.9 billion in the third quarter. Net exports look set to subtract 0.5% from the third quarter GDP growth whilst the business ...

Current account deficit improves in September quarter after some exports recover

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2003
Australia's current account deficit improved marginally in the September quarter after a recovery in some rural exports. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said the deficit narrowed to $11.94 billion from a record $12.31 billion in the previous ...

Weaker property market and low inflation may guide RBA decision in December

... when it meets next on 2 December 2003 to deliberate on interest rate movements. He also predicted the current account deficit to widen by $10.5 billion to six per cent of GDP by December due to ongoing weakness in exports and strong imports and said ...