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The New Zealand economy released a widen in the trade balance for the first time in seven months during July, as the New Zealand imports of vehicles and petroleum products increased, which has a negative effect on gains in the exports of milk powder, butter and cheese.

SINGAPORE'S exports boom showed no signs of slowing last month, with shipments jumping by the largest amount in more than four years. Non-oil domestic exports surged 29.4 per cent compared with the same month a year ago, the biggest year-on-year increase since December 2005, said trade agency IE Singapore yesterday. This follows March's 25.4 per cent rise in exports, and underlines the robustness ... more

THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has warned brokers against profiting from inside information of pending customer orders.
SGX highlighted the practice of front-running – a trading misconduct that occurs when a broker does a personal trade on a stock on the knowledge that his client wants a trade executed on the stock later.
‘There is an opportunity to profit by trading in advance of customers’ large o… more

The global recovery trade (aka the reflation trade) took a serious stumble this past week as a spate of disappointing US data suggested the US recovery is in greater jeopardy than previously thought. As the largest national economy, the US setbacks undermine the global outlook, which was already under pressure…

A better-than-expected report on retail sales for January could suggest stronger economic growth in coming months. But this week’s snowstorms will likely depress activity in February.







Retail – Merchandising – Business – Retail Trade – Sports equipment

U.S. businesses slashed wholesale inventories sharply in December, a much weaker showing than had been expected.







Business – Wholesale Trade – Directories – Consumer Goods and Services – Wholesale and Distribution