{"id":22851,"date":"2011-08-03T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T13:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15205"},"modified":"2011-08-03T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T13:52:23","slug":"australian-data-continues-to-disappoint-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/03\/australian-data-continues-to-disappoint-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Data Continues to Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Piling atop recent articles on Australia\u2019s shrinking housing sector, today\u2019s publication of Australian retail sales and its national trade balance show a broadening contraction striking several sectors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/02\/australian-housing-the-exception-sees-decline\/\">Australia\u2019s economy<\/a>. The retail sales figure, perhaps most shocking, witnessed contraction in June.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15205\"><\/span>Expectations for the retail sales report was for a modest growth of 0.4% from last month\u2019s contraction of 0.6%. The actual report of 0.1% shrinkage has led many investors to pull away from the Australian dollar (AUD) in recent trading. The nation\u2019s trade balance also revealed sluggish growth of only A$2.05B as opposed to the expected A$2.22B, down from last month\u2019s A$2.70B.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Piling atop recent articles on Australia\u2019s shrinking housing sector, today\u2019s publication of Australian retail sales and its national trade balance show a broadening contraction striking several sectors of Australia\u2019s economy. The retail sales fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}