The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper

READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 81 - 90 of 95 results for "Trade surplus"

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 ...

Economic round-up: Greenspan versus the poet

SUZY MAC | WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007

... agency. China's economy has grown over 10 per cent for five straight quarters and according to the customs bureau, its trade surplus blew-out expectations expanding by 73 per cent in May to US$22.45 billion. This is driving asset bubbles and raising ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007

... number of jobs advertised is now 221,000 which is just under 25 per cent more than this time last year. The Chinese trade surplus has narrowed significantly in March to $US6.9 billion after the $US23.8 billion recorded in February. The 7 per cent rise ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007

... the tide of cheap Chinese goods flooding the American market which now is the major source of the record Chinese trade surplus. The unpopular response of China was to tie their currency to a basket of currencies as opposed to pegging it to the $US.

Daily economic round-up

... The February surplus of $23.8 billion was nearly tenfold that of a year earlier and if this continues the record trade surplus of last year of $US177.5 billion looks to again be under threat. The Japanese economy has expanded at its fastest rate for ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006

... Australian and US experience where the savings rates of consumers have become increasingly negative for some time. The trade surplus for China has increased by about 80 per cent this year to about $US180 billion and the country now has the largest foreign ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL | FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006

... graduates coming out of universities of migrants coming from overseas. China has recorded a massive $US134 billion trade surplus for the first 10 months of this year which is about thirty per cent higher than the whole of last year which was itself about ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006

... at universities announced in July, an extra 500 have just been added. China has just recorded its second biggest trade surplus which was a massive $US110 billion up until the end of September. The month on month gap nevertheless narrowed from $US18.8 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006

... the latest data revealing that exports grew by 17.7 per cent as car exports grew by 23 per cent. The year on year trade surplus has increased by 96 per cent to $2.3 billion. This has occurred at a time when imports rose by about 16 per cent and amidst ...

PAGE:

Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

Videos

Brought to you by

The market has changed. The opportunity hasn't.

SMILE through retirement - tackling the top 5 (Sequencing, Market, Inflation, Longevity, Emotion) retirements risks

A guaranteed future

Follow the leaders

Global economic outlook and the case for local currency emerging market debt: Resilience, risk, and opportunity

Maintaining a fundamental focus in a world obsessed with the short term

Strength amid noise

MORE VIDEOS

Products

'Guide To' Series

Pocket investment guides featuring adviser case studies and a glossary.

MORE INFO

Publisher's Forum

Investing trends and strategies from the industry’s thought leaders.

MORE INFO

Product Showcases

Putting the spotlight on investment products that matter.

MORE INFO

Expert Feed

Christian Mueller-Glissmann

Head of Asset Allocation Research

Goldman Sachs

When geopolitics becomes a portfolio risk

Geopolitics is back - again - and Australian investors can no longer treat it as distant background noise.

READ MORE

Tania Milnes

General Manager Membership

Financial Advice Association Australia

Does association membership still matter?

With all the changes the advice sector has experienced in recent years, such as regulatory reform and increased education and professional standards ...

READ MORE