{"id":23780,"date":"2011-09-12T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/12\/australia%e2%80%99s-trade-surplus-diminishing-look-again\/"},"modified":"2011-09-12T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:06:22","slug":"australias-trade-surplus-diminishing-look-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/12\/australias-trade-surplus-diminishing-look-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Trade Surplus Diminishing? Look Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/landsys\/general_static\/en\/?pid=545&#038;mid=888&#038;cid=15844&#038;zid=15873\" target=\"_blank\">ForexYard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<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>The report out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning gave traders the impression of a country facing significant shortfalls in its export capabilities. Australia has been operating on a trade surplus consistently since mid-2010, with the exception of April 2011 data. It seems many think the nation is approaching another deficit as the abnormally high Australian dollar (AUD) is expected to gouge exports.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>The data was anticipated to reveal a surplus of roughly A$1.91B, up from last month\u2019s A$1.82B. With today\u2019s report beating last month\u2019s reading with a A$1.83B, it seems to have diminished some traders\u2019 appetite for the AUD, but oddly considering it was better than the previous month\u2019s figure. Market expectations were priced in ahead of time, making the better-than-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/09\/08\/australian-employment-figures-gouge-aud\/\">previous month\u2019s data<\/a> serve as a negative when it should have been otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/landsys\/general_static\/en\/?pid=545&#038;mid=888&#038;cid=15844&#038;zid=15873\" target=\"_blank\">Forex Market Analysis provided by ForexYard. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2006 by FxYard Ltd<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Trading Foreign Exchange carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. There is a possibility that you could sustain a loss of all of your investment and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. You should be aware of all the risks associated with Foreign Exchange trading. <\/p>\n<div id=\"PostBox\">\n<p align=\"left\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/forms.aweber.com\/form\/36\/1335592236.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ForexYard The report out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning gave traders the impression of a country facing significant shortfalls in its export capabilities. Australia has been operating on a trade surplus consistently since mid-2010, with the exception of April 2011 data. It seems many think the nation is approaching another deficit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/09\/12\/australias-trade-surplus-diminishing-look-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australia\u2019s Trade Surplus Diminishing? Look Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-23780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780","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=23780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}