{"id":23562,"date":"2011-09-01T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15457"},"modified":"2011-09-01T11:08:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:08:34","slug":"australian-spending-data-surprises-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/01\/australian-spending-data-surprises-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Spending Data Surprises Investors"},"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>Two reports this morning surprised investors with seemingly out of place optimism in the private expenditures sector of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/29\/australian-new-home-sales-down-8\/\">Australian economy<\/a>. At 2:30 GMT the Australian Bureau of Statistics issued two indicators that demonstrated a solid uptick in retail sales and private capital expenditures.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15457\"><\/span>The retail sales report was anticipated to see sluggish growth near 0.3%, but surprised traders with a relatively stronger 0.5% reading. Private capital expenditures, which report the quarterly change in new capital investment by private firms, revealed a healthy 4.9% growth in the second quarter. The figure was down from the first quarter\u2019s reading of 7.7%, but well above the forecast 4.1%, making it bullish yet ominous.<\/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> Two reports this morning surprised investors with seemingly out of place optimism in the private expenditures sector of the Australian economy. At 2:30 GMT the Australian Bureau of Statistics issued two indicators that demonstrated a solid uptick in r&#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-23562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562","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=23562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}