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Tag Archives: exports
Surge in overseas exports has given Qld a rare trade surplus
Queensland Treasury’s December quarter State Accounts estimates released earlier this week were encouraging, with gross state product (GSP) growth recorded at 0.9 percent for the quarter and 3.4 percent through-the-year, which are very respectable growth rates, particularly with population growth … Continue reading
Posted in Trade, Uncategorized
Tagged exports, imports, netexports, qld, qldtreasury, queensland, stateaccounts, trade
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Coal and LNG push Qld commodity exports up to $1 billion per week
The surge in coal prices in the second half of 2016 and increased exports of LNG from Gladstone’s Curtis Island have pushed Queensland’s commodity exports to over $52 billion in 2016, or $1 billion per week, up from around $49 … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Mining, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, coal, curtisisland, exports, gladstone, lng, qld, qldtreasury, queensland
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Exports to bolster Qld economy in difficult year ahead
Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt is doing his best to talk up the Queensland economy, noting in recent media releases that Queensland exports are soaring and that Deloitte is forecasting 4.5 per cent economic growth in Queensland in 2015-16 and 4 … Continue reading
Posted in Exports, Macroeconomy
Tagged curtisisland, deloitte, exports, gladstone, gsp, lng, meat, qld, queensland
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Undoubtedly China crash bigger risk to Australia than Grexit
The news.com.au finance reporter Frank Chung is right to note the risks to Australia from a possible crash in China are much greater than the risks from the Greek crisis (see Chinese chaos worse than Greece). We are much more … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Trade
Tagged australia, china, exports, greece, grexit, japan, qld, queensland
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Strong LNG-led export growth means Qld should record economic recovery in first half of 2015
Queensland appears on track to record a recovery from the technical recession of the second-half of 2014, due to a large increase in exports in recent months, in part associated with the LNG now being shipped out of Gladstone (see … Continue reading
Posted in Exports, Macroeconomy
Tagged coal, exports, lng, qld, qldtreasury, queensland, treasury
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New evidence stimulus worsened our competitiveness from Makin & Ratnasiri
Griffith University Economics Professor Tony Makin and his co-author Shyama Ratnasiri have just published an interesting paper (Competitiveness and government expenditure: The Australian example) presenting new econometric evidence that suggests fiscal stimulus in response to the financial crisis worsened Australia’s … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged aussiedollar, australia, budget, competitiveness, exchangerate, exports, fiscalpolicy, interestrates, monetarypolicy, nontradables, rba, stimulus
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Qld coal exports decline of 5.5% big contributor to total exports decline
Lower coal prices have translated into a decline in the value of Queensland’s coal exports (by 5.5% in the year to February 2015), contributing to a 1.6% decline in the value of Queensland’s total commodity exports over the same period … Continue reading
