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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP | WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011

... points while in Frankfurt the DAX rose by 1.23 per cent to 7,501.52 points, reversing losses on Monday. China's trade surplus ballooned to $US11.4 billion ($A10.59 billion) in April and exports hit a record monthly high, data showed on Tuesday. It was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP | TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011

... billion ($A967.88 million) for the first quarter, its first since the beginning of 2004. But analysts said a large trade surplus was expected for the full year as its exports tend to grow later in the year. Exports rose 26.5 per cent on year in the first ...

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 ...

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First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

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