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Attorney General Robert McClelland has released the results of a survey showing legal services exports increased by $34 million between 2006-07 and 2008-09. The the third biennial survey commissiond by the International Legal Services Advisory Council canvassed the legal industry over a year to measure earnings from legal services provided to overseas clients and to [...]
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Survey this, survey that, are you sure about the result? As a marketer, I’m interested in opinion surveys but for the uninitiated they pose potential traps. For instance, survey results can be misleading and may even prompt businesses to make rash strategic choices. Now, I’m not a statistician by any means, but after undertaking some [...]
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Figures from April have been released showing that arrivals to Australia fell by more than 25,000 in that month, according to industry organisation the Tourism & Transport Forum (TTF). The TTF indicated that the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull contributed to the fall. The drop was a decrease of 5.6 percent compared with arrivals in [...]
...read moreThe Australian dollar rose 1.5 cents against the US dollar yesterday evening following the release of official data showing that Australia had recorded its first trade surplus for more than a year. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the balance of goods and services recorded a surplus of $134 million in April, seasonally [...]
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Figures from the March quarter show that Australia’s current account deficit has narrowed thanks to a boost in exports, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The March quarter showed a deficit of $16.5 billion, down from $18.4 billion in the quarter to December 2009. A rise in the terms of trade helped erase [...]
...read moreSouth Australia was the Australian state worst hit by the global economic downturn and a rising Australian dollar, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. SA exports dropped more than 20 percent to $8.3 billion on the back of a 51.1 percent decrease in trade with the USA. Car exports declined by a massive 85 [...]
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Australia’s finance sector generates more than 10 percent of Australian output, placing it top of the list of industries contributing to employment and economic growth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The Bureau’s Australian System of National Accounts publication reports that our financial sector continues to grow more rapidly than most other sectors [...]
...read moreExports increased by $882 million for the month of September with a 64 percent rise in non-monetary gold exports and a nine percent rise in coal exports, but imports increased by $1.08 billion, widening Australia’s trade deficit. Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed that the balance of trade widened from $1.65 billion [...]
...read moreThe number of businesses filing for bankruptcy in Germany has risen almost 15 percent in the first two quarters of this year, by annual comparison. The German Federal Statistical Office reported that more than 16,000 companies filed for bankruptcy between January and June this year, a rise of 14.8 percent compared with the same period [...]
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The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed a surprising jump in manufactured exports, which has led to a lower-than-expected trade deficit for June. The seasonally adjusted deficit sat at $441 million for June, far lower than the $800 million deficit predicted. Exports contributed two percent more to the balance sheet than in [...]
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