House debates Questions without Notice

Economy

Thursday, 12 March 2009 House of Representatives

Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

2:04 pm

I thank the honourable member for Bonner for her question. If we look at the release of further economic data from around the world, it paints a fuller picture of the extent of the global economic recession and the contributing elements to it. Yesterday it was announced that China’s trade surplus narrowed to $4.8 billion in February, approximately one-eighth of the previous month’s surplus.

Comments

No comments