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All Australia wants for Christmas is stronger iron ore prices

Iron ore prices — key to Australia’s economic recovery — hit a six-month high last week. But the days of 10% growth in China are over, as the country ramps up its own mining operations. Are the salad days of iron ore prices over?

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Welcome to the Asian century: Chinese dragon roaring

Australia’s Asian Century is much closer than we know, with the Chinese economic slowdown bottoming out and now starting to rebound in encouraging strength.

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Nothing to worry about in the Oz economy? Think again

Claims that the Australian economy is hunky-dory — including by Crikey’s Glenn Dyer and Bernard — need some debunking with reality.

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China has big spending plans as its economy gets rougher

Is China indulging in another round of talks about new spending that it will find almost impossible to back with what’s really needed — cold, hard cash?

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A precarious global outlook, says new S&P chief

The G7 economies are in deep trouble and China and Asia are caught in the wash. Expect more quantitative easing and euro bond purchases, writes Stephen Koukoulas of Business Spectator.

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Kohler: suffering China’s structural slowdown

The rapid fall in the iron ore price in the past few weeks has exposed the core risk to the Australian economy: the currency needs to fall, but the banks still need foreign funding.

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Faith in central banks’ free money is desperate, misplaced

The faith in the new round of easing seems rather desperate and a bit misplaced.

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Dutch robots to replace Chinese workers

Newly developed robots are much more nimble and suitable for manufacturing jobs than previous attempts. But what is the human cost to our increasing robot workforce? John Markoff investigates.

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China’s bumpy ride sees Oz export prices sink

Stand by, the still-slowing Chinese economy’s search for a soft landing is starting to get bumpy.

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‘The euro is irreversible’: markets tank on promise not kept

There were no refills of the punchbowl from the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and then, last night our time, the European Central Bank.

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Fed sits tight as US economy gets worse

No help for frightened markets from the US Federal Reserve this morning, despite a flood of news overnight and yesterday strongly suggesting the pace of global economic activity continues to slow, especially in Asia.

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Soaring grain prices will hit home in China first

Keep an eye on China as we watch another week of grain price surges — the dramatic impact of the soaring prices for corn and soybeans in particular.

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China economic growth good news for our federal budget

China’s economy isn’t veering off the tracks and heading for the “hard landing”.

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China, Europe and US reinforce strength of Oz economy

If we ever needed confirmation of just how strong the outlook for the Australian economy is, we had it last night.

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Slowing US economy not as bad as it is claimed

Markets worked themselves into a froth overnight after the June survey of US manufacturing showed a surprise fall for the first time in three years.

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Maley: holding back the hand that feeds China

Fears over the faltering Chinese economy will cast a shadow over global markets this week.

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Joye: Reserve Bank could drive cash rate below 1.9%

How low could the RBA’s cash rate go? Much lower than most folks, including the financial markets, think, according to Christopher Joye of Property Observer.

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BHP, Rio steeling themselves against China slowdown

The slowdown in the Chinese economy seems to be deepening with the surprisingly sharp slowdown in industrial production, retail sales and investment.

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What lurks beneath stock market fears

Australia — already a proxy for China’s growth trends — could be more vulnerable to a potential second global banking crisis than we normally imagine, says Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.

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RBA hints at more economic pressures as $A hits US parity

The Australian dollar dropped through parity with the US currency today for the first time in nearly five months.

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No China economy crash as iron ore prices rise

Things are on the up for the voracious Chinese steel industry, but don’t tell all those highly paid investment analysts here and offshore who are gloomy about China.

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Swan’s budget surplus risks pushing us into recession

To avoid recession, Australia will have to have growth of 3% to 4% over the next 18 months — which is possible, but no certainty.

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Maley: smashing the yen to save Japan

Japanese officials are no doubt breathing a sigh of relief as the yen has weakened against the US dollar this year.

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Australia-China currency swap really is a big deal

China has reached agreements on swaps with about 20 countries, but Australia is the biggest and most advanced economy to sign up.

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Tales from inside the European crypt

The unthinkable has happened, countries have gone broke, but the euro has survived.

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