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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... volatile data." He said despite the fall, the unit had held up well during the trading day. Australia also recorded a trade surplus of $1.875 billion in January, seasonally adjusted, from an upwardly revised surplus of $2.018 billion in December. Economists' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... up 2.54 per cent, or 71.80 points, at 2,899.13 after data showed exports and imports surged in January, while the trade surplus fell 53.5 per cent to $US6.45 billion ($A6.46 billion), providing a boost to the country's growth prospects. Exports increased ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... down from the get go. Easy for a deficit country like America to propose but no one at the table really expected trade surplus countries like China, Japan, Germany or host South Korea to agree to limit the trade flow that are putting food on their citizens' ...

Let the reporting season begin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... down from 48.3 per cent in May. Bad. China's not buying as much from the rest of the world. It is slowing. Chinese trade surplus jumped to US$20 billion - an eight month high. Whether this is good or bad depends on your view of whether a higher yuan ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... uncertainty surrounding the country's economic recovery, dealers said. Mixed figures showed the country posted a trade surplus for the ninth straight month in October. Exports fell at their slowest rate in a year but were still down 23.2 per cent year-on-year. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... on a mixed day ahead of the June 30 year end. The economic backdrop remained muddled with a bigger-than-expected trade surplus countering last week's weaker-than-expected gross domestic product data in the March quarter. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... released. Other countries are buying from us. No one questioned the ABS when it reported this week that Australia's trade surplus increased to a better-than-expected A$2.5 billion in March from A$1.75 billion in the previous month. Yes...a surplus. And ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... price index contract was two points higher at 3,558 on 12,894 contracts. While data showed Australia posted a record trade surplus of nearly $3 billion in October, building approvals fell for the fourth month in a row. ABN AMRO Morgans private client ...

Franklin Templeton launches EM fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
Franklin Templeton Investments has launched an emerging markets fund - a unit trust available to Australian investors in local currency that invests in global emerging markets. The fund is denominated in Australian dollars and its objective is to seek ...

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

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... produced, we exported the equivalent of approximately $7.3 billion and imported approximately $4.9 billion, for a huge trade surplus of $2.4 billion or about 20 per cent of our then estimated GDP of $12.5 billion. Compared to our current monthly trade ...