{"id":70,"date":"2009-04-02T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/gold-export-prices-help-trade-surplus-to-soar-to-2bn\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T01:31:15","slug":"gold-export-prices-help-trade-surplus-to-soar-to-2bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/gold-export-prices-help-trade-surplus-to-soar-to-2bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold export prices help trade surplus to soar to $2bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Jackson | April 02, 2009<br \/>\nArticle from:  The Australian<\/p>\n<p>EXPORTS bounced 4 per cent in February on soaring gold export prices and a weaker Aussie dollar, widening the trade surplus to $2.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Economists had expected the trade surplus to shrink to $700 million from $926 million in January.<br \/>\nImports slipped 1 per cent, figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed.<\/p>\n<p>Gold exports soared 55 per cent in February as nervous investors sought shelter in the safe-haven asset, and was the main reason for the turnaround in total exports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Jackson | April 02, 2009 Article from: The Australian EXPORTS bounced 4 per cent in February on soaring gold export prices and a weaker Aussie dollar, widening the trade surplus to $2.1 billion. Economists had expected the trade surplus to shrink to $700 million from $926 million in January. Imports slipped 1 per cent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}