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Eric Johnston is an associate editor of The Australian. He has more than 25 years experience as a finance journalist, including a former business editor of The Australian. He has been business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and financial services editor with The Australian Financial Review. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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Opinion

Industry celebrates ties with China

AN increasing number of businesses are holding events to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Glenda Korporaal

Terry McCrann

Expectation meets reality at the RBA

THERE are two critically important things to understand about the RBAs latest forecasts for inflation and growth.

Terry McCrann

Property

Construction still contracting

THE construction sector remained in contraction for the third consecutive month, despite a slight increase in activity in January.

MITCHELL NEEMS

News

Twitter drives a TV show further

A HIGHLY engaged Twitter following is among the top five reasons people watch TV shows, according to a global Twitter executive.

LARA SINCLAIR

Business

China bids to offset capital outflows

THE Chinese central bank has effectively freed up to 600 billion yuan ($123bn) worth of liquidity in the economy.

Scott Murdoch

Markets

Investors extend bets on more easing

INVESTORS are betting on further interest rate cuts this year taking cue from the dovish tone of the RBA’s statement yesterday.

David Rogers

Wall Street Journal

Employees at the General Electric Co. healthcare unit's production facility work to assemble medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices in Beijing, China, on Friday, July 22, 2011. General Electric Co.'s healthcare unit, the world's biggest maker of medical-imaging machines, said it will move the headquarters for its more than 100-year-old X-Ray business to China to tap emerging market growth. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg

China contraction signals slowdown

CHINA’S manufacturing sector slipped into contraction in January, according to the latest data, another indication of a slowdown.

Richard Silk

Economics

Reserve Bank Governor at the RBA Sydney offices in front of the painting ‘Triptych’ by Rodney Milgate, 1970.

Economists bet on rate cuts

AUSTRALIA needs lower interest rates to reduce unemployment and rebalance the nation’s economy, a panel of leading economists says.

David Rogers

Markets

Chinese one-hundred yuan banknotes are arranged in a bowl for a photograph in Hong Kong, China, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. The yuan rose to the strongest level in 20 years today on signs the Communist Party is already delivering on its November pledge to give markets a more “decisive” role in the world’s second-largest economy. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg

PBoC pushes yuan lower

CHINA’S yuan fell sharply to its weakest level in seven months this week, as Beijing adds to a host of measures aimed at spurring growth.

ANJANI TRIVEDI

Wall Street Journal

A John Deere 7760 cotton picker harvests cotton at Condrey Farms in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Parts of the Mississippi Delta region will get as much as 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) of rain in the next 10 days, below the normal level of 1 inch to 1.5 inches. Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg

Investors see reasons to buy

A FEW brave investors are betting the gloom oppressing global commodity markets is on the verge of lifting.

LESLIE JOSEPHS

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