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China’s trade surplus may be spiralling out of control, but Standard Chartered think China’s external imbalance will actually improve.

The ANZ Australian Job Ads series showed a sharp fall in February, supporting the bank’s forecasts of rising unemployment in coming months.

Following its February survey of business conditions and confidence National Australia Bank has revised down its growth forecasts for both Australia and the world in general.

Negative GDP growth, a weak Aussie dollar, falling inflation, drying up demand and an election are all on the cards for 2009, says Standard Chartered.

Commonwealth Bank is aggressively forecasting the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cuts official rates by 1.0% this week.

Weekly musings from your editor. Which Way Forward? A presentation plus some adventures in the City of Churches.

With only a few stocks going ex-dividend next week the focus is squarely on economic data from Australia and the rest of the world.

I knew I was stirring up a hornets’ nest.

TD Securities have gone on record, predicting three 25bp rate cuts in the next three months as the view on the Australian economy darkens.

Danske Bank has further lowered its commodity price forecasts but continues to recommend investors get set as there are some signs of improvement on the horizon.