China’s foreign trade up 45.2% in Feb
10 March 2010
(Xinhua) Updated: 2010-03-10 13:32 BEIJING – China’s foreign trade posted a 45.2 percent year-on-year growth in February, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) announced Wednesday. Exports in February stood at $94.52 billion, up 45.7 percent, in a new indication of a rebound in global demand, while imports rose 44.7 percent to $86.91 billion. Exports grew 8.2 percent compared with [...]
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China to build high-speed rail link to Europe
10 March 2010
The Age NICKY PHILLIPS AND ANDREW WEST March 10, 2010 THE journey from London to Beijing by rail could take just two days under a Chinese plan to build an international network for trains that can travel almost as fast as aircraft. Three networks are planned, with the Britain to China route to be extended to Singapore, and built [...]
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RBA warns home prices could go higher
10 March 2010
The Age Chris Zappone 10 March 2010 The Reserve Bank has warned that difficulties in building new homes threaten to drive Australian house prices higher. RBA assistant governor Phillip Lowe said if the nation’s population growth remained strong, more of the economy would need to be devoted towards housing, presenting challenges both to labour markets and governments. “If this [...]
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Jobs market booming – now for the bad news
10 March 2010
Sydney Morning Herald PETER MARTIN ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT March 10, 2010 AUSTRALIA’S jobs market has turned white hot, with newspaper job ads being placed at a rate not seen since the onset of the financial crisis and as many as one in five employers planning to take on staff as business confidence climbs to an eight-year high. But the flipside [...]
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Bubble warnings as investors move back to property
10 March 2010
Geoffrey Newman From:The Australian March 10, 2010 12:00AM PROPERTY investors have returned in force to Australia’s major capital cities with more than one-of home loans sourced for investment purposes. The percentage of loans made through Australia’s biggest mortgage broker surged 26 per cent in the past six months as buyers shrugged off the global financial crisis, rising [...]
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Populate or stagnate
10 March 2010
The AGE March 10, 2010 THE third Intergenerational Report, released by the government in January, projected that Australia’s population would reach almost 36 million by 2050, up 13.7 million, or nearly 62 per cent, on the present level. This is a substantial rise on the projections in the secondIntergenerational Report released by the previous government just under three years [...]
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